Yet because AIR lets SlideRocket tap into the storage of a PC, it has a drag-and-drop file system similar to Windows Office.
The newspaper said groups affected by the cuts include Windows, Office, Server and Tools, Online Services and Windows Phone as well as the central marketing group.
The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Microsoft also is planning price breaks for its Windows and Office software as part of a strategy to spur lower-cost touch-screen devices enabled by its Windows software.
Windows Phone 7 could be the next multi-billion dollar business for Microsoft after Windows and Office.
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Schmidt notes that most of their revenue and profits come from Windows and Office, not Xbox.
Yes, yes, I know, Windows and Office are not the only things Microsoft produces.
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By trying to defend and extend its Windows and Office history, Microsoft missed the market shift.
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What do you say we bust it up into three separate companies: Windows, Office and Web Ventures?
By contrast much of Microsoft's revenue comes from sales of Windows and Office software used on PCs.
For India, Microsoft has had to rethink its decades-old strategy of raining down copies of Windows and Office.
The goodness of Windows and Office has kept the company from moving on successfully to new markets, like smartphones.
Windows and Office are not really going to be threatened on that desktop by anything that we can see out there.
Growth in Windows Phone sales may not change the stock price much, which is still driven mainly by Windows and Office sales.
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Even Microsoft, which is at risk at becoming an also-ran in new markets, produces lots of cash from its Windows and Office franchises.
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The Windows, Office near monopolies are hugely cash and profit generative.
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Microsoft shares have gone nowhere for ten years, amid growing concerns that the rise of tablets, smartphones and cloud computing will sap the power of Windows and Office.
We expect Windows Phone to become a significant revenue driver for Microsoft in the coming years, but Windows and Office are expected to always remain its primary moneymakers.
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That way, Microsoft hopes Windows and Office will reinforce each other on the Internet just as they do now, ensuring a smooth transition from licence to rental income.
But now that former competitors in spreadsheets and word software have been squished like bugs, there is no particular need for Windows and Office to be under the same roof.
Not least, Microsoft's share price is unchanged over the last decade (despite impressive revenue growth), thanks to concerns that Windows and Office are threatened by mobile devices and Internet-based applications.
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Overall, we think that these three divisions are in a relatively good shape even though they are subject to increasing competition and that their dominance is key for Microsoft since its other products rely on the Windows and Office ecosystem.
Every day he looks out his office windows and sees the ghosts of wrecked firms.
They are the people who do the testing of things like Windows and Microsoft Office.
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Still, it's not clear what the consumer gains by having Windows attached to Office.
Meanwhile, some Chicago bankers defiantly hung a sign in their office windows: We are the 1%.
The windows of his office showed the storm moving in across the lake.
Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office have an immense base of installed computers.
Windows 8, Office 365, and PCs and tablets, both ours and those of our partners, all have an important place in classrooms.
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She took to bulletproofing her car and office windows and hiring bodyguards.
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