The big winner in PCs was Microsoft, which spent millions on developer conferences and Visual Basic, its software toolkit for developers.

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Before now anyone wanting to use the Kinect had to work via an official software toolkit that hid the underlying code.

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Today we are releasing the software code of the IT Dashboard and the TechStat toolkit to the public for two reasons.

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In the United Kingdom the London Fire Brigade (LFB) uses software created by business analytics specialists SAS as part of their Incident Risk Analysis toolkit.

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Nexus Root Toolkit: A reader wanted to tip everyone onto this nice bit of software that supports all versions of the Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7.

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Yet prior analysis indicates that client software, archiving capabilities, and mobility support are some of the largest per-employee cost drivers in the Microsoft toolkit portfolio.

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