Something is deeply wrong with the way software people have gone about artificial intelligence.
Microsoft will continue selling software the traditional way, for a one-time fee for one Windows computer.
It's one that hopes to unite hardware and software in a way that an all-purpose controller never could.
Potential customers can use the software in any way they wish.
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So, Bacon suggests, ebooks should be sold to schools the way software is sold: as licenses for access with pricing depending on the level of access.
The 7000 and the 5000 (names are not Cisco's strong suit) do the tricky work of unifying servers, data storage and virtualization software (a way to get one server to do the work of several so you get more bang from each).
While an open source approach isn't the right solution for every software need, using and contributing back to open source software is one way that we're making it easier for the government to share data, improve tools and services, and return value to taxpayers.
We think it is the best way to ship software to highly technical firms today and it is the only way you can get the level of transparency you get from in-house development with an outside system.
Where they differ, apart from in cost, is in the way the software is updated.
The rental model has also benefited from widespread dislike of the way that software is traditionally sold.
Early work is now under way on software for wireless security and for making optical switches smarter and faster.
Gianforte still relishes tossing rocks at the way the software has been traditionally sold to big business and government.
Bernhard meant her audience (sort of), but I often feel that tech companies feel that way about software developers.
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The interface is simple, clear and the software sophisticated in the way it utilizes iPhone sounds, GPS and push notifications.
Software is altering the way lights are used every day, just as LEDs are changing the source of that light.
Salesforce.com, which delivers customer-management applications over the Web, is now giving nontechies the ability to personalize the way the software works.
This is changing: 2010 is the year retailers are finally using tracking software in a big way, says Fiona Dias, an EVP at GSI Commerce.
Mobile anti-virus software is a great way to ensure the safety of your smartphone, especially now, when iPhones, Androids and BlackBerrys are used for much more than just making calls.
That way, software can make the first cut, identifying questionable charges for photocopying, or a firm that assigns a new lawyer to the case without first obtaining approval from the client.
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Certainly, the best part of the book is Mr Grand's description of the inner workings of his artificial-life software, and the way it mimics biological processes to give rise to all kinds of life-like behaviour.
The whole personal computer era can be seen as one giant triumph of dis-integration, as IBM's circuit-boards-to-boxes-to-software mainframe business gave way to the layered computer industry we see today: Intel making the electronics, Dell the boxes and Microsoft the software.
Microsoft CEO and Chairman Steve Ballmer is celebrating his 33rd year at the software company the same way he has spent the last few, selling the world on all of the company's new products while battling accusations he's been outmaneuvered in the mobile era by Apple and Google.
The software giant has tried for years to develop - and buy - its way into the enterprise software market.
The real boon will be software design so close to the way people actually communicate that programmers can more easily write what regular people want out of their software.
The software, which automates collection and preparation of electronic filing of regulatory material, is useful to IBM as a way of selling analytics software, a huge and growing business for IBM.
Harbour said the security software sector has a long way to go, but he's not complaining.
But it has been at least four years since software challenged hardware in that way.
There was nothing in the way of enterprise software or year 2000 plans in place.
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