Essays 31 - 60
have a user name or password, as well as individual user control when it came to files (Wildstrom, 2001). While some files can be ...
monopoly" (Brinkley, 2000). (This isnt unknown business practice; Detroit routinely buys up inventions that might lead to more fu...
Meanwhile,as Nintendo has sold 120 million Game Boy and Game Boy Advance units, effectively owning the portable game machine marke...
fence replied: "Thats crazy. Microsoft is on a rampage, and the Department of Justice should rein the company in" (1995, p.106). ...
that number-crunchers have come to rely on" (p.29). The one main advantage of Excel, according to many experts (not to men...
among his competitors who cry foul to such underhanded strategy. The antitrust lawsuit slapped on the Microsoft Chairman and Chie...
revealed that Microsofts Foxpro by far led its class of software programs in the PRC, accounting for 65 percent of its class. Thi...
Income 66.7% 25.0% 54.8% 10.2% 7.2% 1.6% EPS 27.0% 70.1% 19.7% (18.8%) 2.2% 30.5% Growth Trends/Time Warner 1997 1998 1999 2000 ...
scope and scale of operational concerns. The issues that concern Microsoft may be seen as those which are currently seen in the in...
may have used in more generic terms. Michael Porter has considered the way in which firms compete and defined two types of competi...
software market by offering a new 64-bit database, claiming that the new system had performances rivaling those of the Unix-based ...
with 200 MHz or higher with 32 MB of RAM is recommended by most facilities); a VGA monitor; mouse or compatible pointing device; k...
overcoming security holes that have been uncovered before a Microsoft security patch has been released" (Saran, 2005, p. 4). The a...
There is also a great deal of research available on the human resources aspect of Microsoft, and this will definitely help the stu...
the OS as long as it benefits consumers and cant be replicated (Wired News Report, 2002). * May 18, 1998: The U.S. Justice Departm...
Word allows the author or editor to create an index using as little text as an individual word or as much as several pages....
it deemed fit and would control the output. The arguments against monopolies were that in having this monopoly there was no incen...
continents" it also seems vulnerable (Greene et al, 2004). And its competitors are apparently aware of this vulnerability. Its m...
compete. There had in fact been "wars" with rivals, an example of which is Netscape, a company that threatened to form a new sof...
27.9 38.1 22.2 26.60 Price/Sales Ratio 16.1 10.7 8.7 8.5 6.8 6.16 Price/Book Value 8.3 5.6 4.5 4.2 5.5 5.91 Current Ratio 3.56 3.8...
had some critics saying that the fine isnt enough. In that respect, the EU case continues, but what critics are starting t...
to have a competitive advantage, he identified two sources of competitive advantage; cost advantage and differentiation (Porter, 1...
Paul Allen and Bill Gates attended the same high school at a time when a small computer was a box sporting lights on the front and...
is even more concerned by the decision that "it must share closely-guarded details of how its operating system works, so rivals ca...
an important learning tool, and the EFL environment is no exception (Egbert et al, 2002). Software with visual and interactive ca...
way: " The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser s...
As this suggests, Microsoft Office 2007 can be viewed as either changing everything or it can be viewed as everything remaining ba...
firm may be assessed. One of the first ratios is that of the gross profit margin. The gross margin is expressed as a percentage....
recommendation also means the Microsoft culture needs to change from one of infallibility into one in which risk can be assumed, a...
the IBM Center for The Business of Government (2002). This puts forward a seven step model which is cyclical which note only expla...