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XYZ Accounting Firm and Money 98 versus Quicken 98 Software

In five pages this paper compares the two types of software being considered by the fictitious firm and determines that Microsoft'...

Microsoft and Public Opinion

In seven pages this paper discusses Microsoft's current image and how it is perceived by the public. Fifteen sources are cited in...

Microsoft and the Anti Trust Lawsuit

In six pages this paper examines Microsoft's monopoly and the anti trust lawsuit levied against the corporation in a consideration...

Financial Case Study of Microsoft

In ten pages this paper applies a SWOT analysis to Microsoft's position in this assessment of financial performance. Four sources...

Political Contributions and Microsoft's Antitrust Lawsuit

Since 1945, there have been two monumental discoveries that launched computers into an entirely new realm of acceptance and, thus,...

History of Standard Oil and Its Breakup

In seven pages this paper examines Standard Oil in an overview of its history, the government's contributions to its breakup, and ...

Theory and Microsoft

In ten pages Microsoft's history of product development is considered along with lack of marketplace acceptance of Explorer and Wi...

Possible Futures For The Microsoft Corporation

antagonize the government. Gates attitude appears to be one of the principal factors behind why the ruling went against Microsoft....

Management Style and Microsoft Corporation

Weaknesses. The main weakness is that what drove Microsoft toward success also drove the company toward the courts. Though Microso...

Different Styles of Leadership Represented by Bill Gates and Lee Iacocca

relative positions of relevant factors on a continuum. It may be easier for managers to alter circumstances than it is for them t...

Microsoft.NET and Access Solutions

are a range of wizards to increase ease of use and a query wizard to help with the finding of data (Microsoft, 2002). Underlying t...

Hardware Marketed by Microsoft

case failed. Microsoft acknowledged that there were similarities between the two types of hardware, but maintained that they had b...

2003 Financial Position of Microsoft Corporation

software maker. * The company recently reduced sales forecasts for the fiscal year that will end in June 2003 to between $31.4 bil...

Scheduling

place concurrently at the same time) rather than consecutively (one at a time after each other). Possible paths Total number of ...

ZUNE AND ITUNES-- A COMPARISON

on television talk shows, as opposed to entertainment (such as movies or videos). This suggests that Zune is being structured to a...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

A FAILURE OF PROJECT SCOPE: VISTA AND GEOPLEX

certainly the case for AT&T with its doomed Geoplex project, and Microsoft Corp. with its latest OS, optimistically called "Vista....

Computer System Project

This 10 page paper looks at the way a project to install a computer system in a shop may be planned. The paper focuses ion the pla...

Attitudes of the Public and the Impact of Advertising

Happy Meals occupying the screen, the boy ecstatically describes the many choices from Chocolate Milk to Apple Juice, from Apple D...

2001 through 2005 Financial Performance of Microsoft

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...

Microsoft and the Value of Applying Strategic Tools and Concepts

to have a competitive advantage, he identified two sources of competitive advantage; cost advantage and differentiation (Porter, 1...

Help Desk Software Selection

Every programmer approaches tasks differently. A dozen programmers can be given the same assignment and produce code that provide...

Microsoft SQL and Oracle 10g

software market by offering a new 64-bit database, claiming that the new system had performances rivaling those of the Unix-based ...

Overview of the Microsoft Antitrust Case

fence replied: "Thats crazy. Microsoft is on a rampage, and the Department of Justice should rein the company in" (1995, p.106). ...

Microsoft's Software Dominance Threatened

offers. In addition, whether or not the company has achieved an unfair share...

Value, Acquisitions, and Mergers

is because studies have shown that more than half the mergers that took place during the 1990s actually ended up diluting sharehol...

Development of Digital Rights Management

not give content providers absolute control over how users use their material, but it can place some prohibitions on specific uses...

Security Patches Released by Microsoft

released in 2001 to correct the programs "vulnerability that could allow malicious code to run in a Rich Text Format (RTF) documen...

Twentieth Century Rise of the Microsoft Corporation

compete. There had in fact been "wars" with rivals, an example of which is Netscape, a company that threatened to form a new sof...