Microsoft could sell all of the peripheral businesses and commit to simply upgrading those two pieces of software (and perhaps the enterprise stuff) into the future until they are entirely finished in the marketplace.

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He believes the fiscal cliff will be punted far into the future, perhaps after the next midterm elections in 2014.

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That payment period will inevitably be rescheduled, perhaps repeatedly, into the distant future before it is forgiven wholesale.

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But that still leaves the future potential for Boise or BYU or even Nevada to run into an insurmountable and perhaps unfair scheduling wall that may negate their championship dreams.

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In a symbiotic program that should potentially benefit studios, consumers, and perhaps even the medium itself, Apple hooked up with HD Radio developer iBiquity to integrate a "Tag" button into future hardware releases, which when triggered loads metadata about the current song to memory for future transfer to a docked iPod.

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