This move to exploit social network sites would also fuel a move away from attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system to gain control of a PC or steal data.
The court hearing stems from an anti-trust suit the US Government filed last October, accusing Microsoft of using its dominance with the Windows 95 operating system to gain an unfair market share for its Internet browser, Internet Explorer, over its competitor Netscape Communications Corp.
This gain includes operating results from Axent Technologies since its December 2000 acquisition.
Denbow likes the miners as a way to gain some operating leverage on gold itself, but even he acknowledges there are significant risks to that strategy.
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Microsoft is also struggling to make a splash with its operating system, which failed to gain ground in other devices.
Easing oil prices, apart from triggering sales, will also help these companies gain back some lost operating margins on the account of high cotton and oil prices.
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Through the Nokia partnership, Microsoft not only stands to gain licensing revenues for its operating system, but also search advertising market share.
Its 31% increase in net income in the fourth quarter resulted primarily from higher operating profit, a pre-tax gain for the sale of its 18% ownership in the Game Show Network, and a lower effective tax rate.
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As home builders increase that inventory, they are set to gain pricing power, increasing their operating margins.
Microsoft needs to gain market share in the virtualize operating system space.
You upgrade the main operating system in your home so that you can gain greater functionality and speed and more features for your phone, PC, TV, etc.
For the year, that marked a gain in share for Google's operating system, but a decline for Apple's - although in terms of units sold, both firms made gains.
Just 24 hours after a new update to the operating system patched a flaw that allowed anyone to gain physical access to a locked phone, another lockscreen bypass has already been found.
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Microsoft fears that if applications increasingly reside on the Internet, rather than on the desktop, all that is needed to gain access to them is a browser and a basic operating system.
Can you imagine eBay in the US waiving listing and transaction fees just to gain market traction, and just relying on advertising income to cover operating costs?
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But the government failed to gain traction and was eventually overshadowed on the ground by a coalition of Islamist forces operating under the banner of the Islamic Courts Union.
AdSense for Games is "an extension of the Google content network that allows advertisers to very easily gain access to in-game inventory, " says Sebastien de Halleux, chief operating officer at social games developer Playfish.
He also likes electronic-products maker Hubbell Inc. (nyse: HUB.b - news - people ), which reported a 39% gain in first-quarter revenue, as well as 20 consecutive quarters of positive operating cash flow.
Perhaps the biggest gain may be in dual storage computers where a flash memory device is used for storing operating systems, software and frequently accessed content (and maybe even for write caching) while a hard disk drive provides much less expensive mass storage of user data.
With savings achieved on the operating side, Cisco will be able to make aggressive price cuts to compete better with low-cost rivals and gain even more market share.
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