Spot the dinosaur.
This article reports that the two products that earn Microsoft half of its annual profits, the Windows operating system and Office, a collection of personal-computer applications including word processing and spreadsheet programs, are under threat from new technologies. The competition comes from o...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 378; no. 8471; pp. 53 - 55 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
4/1/2006
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