Moreover, while Microsoft's Vista operating system has received mediocre reviews, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant offers a host of tools, from e-mail software to its ubiquitous Office productivity suite, that will make it impossible to break Windows' lock on big businesses anytime soon.
Ever since Googlereleased easy-to-use software tools for its nifty on-screen maps of streets and satellite images a year ago, fans have set off an explosion of creative overlaps, adding their own useful and sometimes quirky data.
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it has reorganized the company's various advertising businesses--from PCs to mobile and game ads, along with ad placement software tools--under one roof.
Parallels touts that its software includes a built-in suite of tools like Kaspersky antivirus software and Acronis disk backup.
Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package.
If your business is building products, why divert from your core competency to develop in-house software tools when you can hire a company like Salesforce.com to deliver the services you need from the cloud?
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At the annual meeting of the Carbon Disclosure Project--a non-profit investor organization devoted to greater transparency in greenhouse gas emission statistics--Sun released a set of open-source software tools that companies can use to track carbon emissions.
Their second-generation software offers a feature-rich suite of tools with an easy-to-use graphical user interface.
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For Sega's coming Dreamcast machine, developers can use familiar software-writing tools like Microsoft's DirectX.
Our offerings include equity research and a suite of software tools for value-based corporate management.
The product will only get used if it's unobtrusive and suggests changes using the same software-building tools that developers commonly use, so the process is familiar.
Companies like Yammer and Socialcast have taken this category of social computing tools to new levels with Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing, making it simple for any company of any size to deploy a similar model almost instantly for their own employees.
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Google is testing a fleet of plug-in hybrids and software that would turn them into load-balancing tools for utilities flooded with variable power from wind and solar generators.
Most web designers and developers use their own battle-tested mix of software tools in some kind of Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
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The problem with the current crop of voice-activated devices and software tools is that they only provide an alternative to what is currently available.
Ballmer said the shift to online software and services will mean changes for all of Microsoft's businesses, which range from desktop productivity tools to database and e-mail server software.
Good times among corporations have led many to invest heavily in software productivity tools, while those marketing consumer goods have boosted spending for software and internet-related advertising.
In other words, providing the software and cloud-based tools to centrally manage lighting just as an IT professional would manage a corporate network.
Chang says Basis differentiates with its software and habit-tracking tools.
Over the past several years, Fuller has steered Borland's products beyond purely engineering-orientated products (the software compliers and debuggers that, along with other tools, make up the so-called integrated development environment) to include tools for project managers, some of who may not be directly involved in code writing.
Building on the successful TSS library, it offers a comprehensive solution with complementary licensed software and cost-effective development tools.
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Oracle, the database-software behemoth, is buying Sun Microsystems, which sells big computers as well as software ranging from Java tools to open-source databases.
Just as with America Online (AOL), users pay a monthly fee to use MSN 8 that includes spam filters, e-mail managing software, and other tools.
Narayen is building into Adobe's content-creation tools the planning, tagging and tracking software, plus newer technology that plumbs Twitter and Facebook for information about how people, ads and products are seen.
It does so by integrating the latest computer tools, robotic chemistry and its own secret drug-modeling software.
Further, public agencies frequently development their own custom versions of tools and software that can be bought inexpensively from third-party providers.
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So we're trying to use open-source software development ideas to take the tools we've developed internally and make them publicly available.
In the past, U.S. sanctions have often blocked software companies from widely distributing internet-related tools in countries where access seems especially critical.
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Along with powerful tools for collaboration, security and delivering performance in cloud-based software services will continue to separate the leaders in SaaS from the rest of the pack.
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