...Supply and Demand Microsoft must be able examine the consumers’ actions and behaviors because without the consumers, Microsoft’s business will not run efficiently. Microsoft must be able to face the day to day challenges of participating in a competitive market, and must be able to lead and guide the market toward equilibrium of supply and demand forces. Microsoft wants to be as efficient as possible so that there is neither a surplus nor a shortage in the market. Microsoft is a corporation in a competitive market where buyers can buy particular goods and sellers can sell particular goods. The seller can be either directly Microsoft or another company such as Wal-Mart, who sells goods produced by Microsoft. When looking at the forces of supply and demand in a particular market, we want to look at the behaviors of the buyers and sellers of that market. (Mankiw, 2012) (Microsoft) Looking at supply involves looking at the actions of the buyers in a particular market for goods. In this case, we look at goods produced by the Microsoft Corporation. When a particular good is demanded buy buyers such as, software or electronics, there is a quantity demanded by the buyers. The quantity demanded is known as how much of a specific good a buyer can purchase. For example, there are three students in the market for Microsoft office 2010 software. Each buyer would like to purchase two packages of the Microsoft software each. If each buyer purchases two packages of software the total software...
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...APPLE VS. MICROSOFT – A WEBSITE USABILITY STUDY RESOURCES, USABILITY · MAY 29, 2009 Today we’re going to compare the websites of two monumental companies: Apple and Microsoft. The two giants pride themselves for producing cutting edge consumer and business products, and are leading the developments in software and hardware. But what about their websites? How do they both compare, and more important, which one is better and more usable? Well, in this article we’ll take a look at both websites for closer examination from a usability point of view. One important thing to note before we proceed to compare these two websites is that each company’s business revolves around different markets. Microsoft primarily makes its profits from business to business, which mainly consists of selling licenses to its operating system to computer manufacturers and office suites for enterprises. That’s not to say that they don’t sell to consumers — they do, and they have consumer only product lines as well, such as the Xbox gaming console, and of course home users also buy Windows and Office. This means that their business targets pretty much everyone, from home computer owners to developers and enterprises; which in turn stretches the purpose of their website to try and serve everyone. On the other hand, Apple is primarily a consumer company, and makes most of its profit selling hardware, like its iPod music players and Mac computers. This makes the target of Apple’s site much clearer — marketing...
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...safely online and can be accessed from any computer. Microsoft Online is Microsoft's hosted software offering and a component of their Software plus services strategy. Microsoft Online Services are hosted by Microsoft and sold "with" Microsoft partners. The suite includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online, Microsoft Forefront, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting. Microsoft Online is widely touted as Microsoft's answer to Google Docs as a competing web application. Business Application(s) For business purposes the two applications can be rated under the following categories: You must Login to view the entire essay. If you are not a member yet, Sign Up for free! Price, Look and Feel, Collaboration, Presentations, Spreadsheets and Wordprocessing. Price Both applications require that users only have online ids to access. Thus the cost of using both applications will be nothing. Look and Feel Google Docs has a very nice basic feel to it, in keeping with the simplicity and ease of use that Google brings to its products. Microsoft is creating its online applications to have the same look and feel as its desktop applications, which may bode well for its already existing market base. Collaboration One of the strong suits of Google Docs is real-time collaboration in the Web browser. Microsoft is bringing similar functionality and calling it co-authoring although for Microsoft documents, a user must first save the required document...
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...Microsoft Corporation provides a wide range of services and products worldwide. They are responsible for developing, manufacturing, licensing, and supporting a large range of software products made for computing devices (Microsoft, 2007). They are part of the technology sector, and are a key player in the software & programming industry (Google, 2008). Microsoft is a United States based multinational company, with employees around the world. Team A will analyzing the Microsoft corporation and take a look at financial numbers. Team A will also look at the non-financial data such as ethics and compliance factors which are just as equally important. Internal Controls Microsoft’s internal control over financial reporting is based on the framework in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. As of June 30, 2007, the company did not make any changes to the internal controls over financial reporting procedures and it was deemed effective by the auditing firm Deloitte & Touche LLP. Microsoft’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted...
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...What is better, Microsoft Inc. or Apple Inc.? Quality or average? Which do you prefer or own? I hope you picked Microsoft, because I know that it is better than Apple Inc. Microsoft does not have cheap white designs that get boring. You can do a lot more things on a PC that a Mac. Meaning you can run more programs and use them more efficiently. They are perpetually better than Apple Inc. at gaming. Apple Inc. has too many restrictions on them and not enough power to run some of the bigger games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 1-3. These reasons prove that Microsoft is better. First off, Microsoft Inc. is better than Apple Inc., because you can run more programs and use them more efficiently on a PC than on a Mac or MacBook. You do not see people messing around with binary code on a Mac do you. No. Because Apple’s products have restrictions on them so that people cannot use them to their maximum capabilities. Some vital programs that have to download or manually installed cannot because of Apple Inc.’s restrictions on their computers. This can leave you behind if your colleagues have better software on PC’s. In addition, unlike Apple Inc., You can use Microsoft’s phone directly on your PC, Apple will only let you back them up and...
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...shows its competitor the Microsoft Computer Company as an out dated company. This picture is clearly more focused on promoting Apple as the better company, but where is the proof. The truth is there is none, no facts of figures just a lovely picture they would love for you to take a face value. This picture is clearly one sided and uneven Apple and Microsoft each have their own pros and cons and to display them in such a manner is irresponsible. The first thing that caught my eye was the very different expressions on the opposing mechanics faces. The Microsoft mechanic has a frown on his face and his hand on his head, while the Apple mechanic seems to be standing tall with a huge smile. Again they are trying to make it seem like with Microsoft you will be unhappy, but with apple you will be on top of the world. Besides the two mechanics if you take at the cars the Apple car is slightly bigger to make it pop just that extra little bit. Further more the Apple car is space age looking while the Microsoft car looks like its ready to be junked soon. So this was not a picture taken by a photographer but you can the artist did some tricky things to make Apple stand out just a bit more. First of all as I mentioned before he has made the Apple car slightly bigger just so that your eye is more easily drawn to Apple’s car. Even the Apple logo is bigger than the Microsoft logo. The artist has also made the Apple car look much more futuristic and the Microsoft car is an old beat up hunk...
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...University of Phoenix Material Help With Microsoft® PowerPoint® Assignments Introduction Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is used widely in business and education to create visual presentations to accompany live speaking. Table of Contents Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 1 Creating Your Best Work in Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2 Details You Should Know 4 Submitting Your Microsoft® PowerPoint® File 5 Using Microsoft® PowerPoint Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is widely used in business and education to create slides to accompany live presentations. Microsoft® PowerPoint® files contain slides that are presented sequentially, most often by means of a computer running the software connected to a projector. Microsoft® PowerPoint® is the software used to create slides, organize them into a slideshow, and present them. • When used in a live presentation, the presenter uses the mouse button, the spacebar, or the arrow keys to advance to the next slide. • To help make the slides more interesting, Microsoft® PowerPoint® provides a number of visual styles and themes so that all slides can have a similar look. • Each theme or style accommodates a number of slide types in the form of empty slide templates, which may then be populated with content. Among the many templates are title slides, bullet-point slides, slides with spaces for images, and so on. • In addition, the creator can control transitions between slides and other simple animations, such as having...
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...Microsoft Has Suddenly Gotten Serious with Mobile The Article’s overview Microsoft is showing that it wants to meet mobile users where they are, not where the company hopes they will be one day. Instead of using the strategy of pushing the mobile operation system in customer’s smartphones, Microsoft turned outside the company to bolster its mobile app offerings for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating system. The reason for changing the strategy is that the company has figured out that Window’s mobile operating system dominates only three percent of the market share of mobile phone, while Android occupies the largest for 85% and iOS, the second, is at 11%. Initially, Microsoft attempted to compete with Apple and Google by buying the Nokia Company to put its own mobile operating system on the market as Windows Phone. Also, Microsoft did not make its software available for any competitors. However, this strategy never hurt any rivals, only Microsoft itself. With disappointing results, Microsoft has shifted its strategy and developed more applications and services and has brought them to Apple’s and Android’s devices. Early last year, Microsoft released the mobile version of Office 365 applications as well as OneDrive. They work well with other cloud storage apps such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or iCloud. Outlook is the latest application that was released in late January 2015. It is the email and calendar application for the heavy email users. Outlook is...
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...University of Phoenix Material Help With Microsoft® PowerPoint® Assignments Introduction Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is used widely in business and education to create visual presentations to accompany live speaking. Table of Contents Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 1 Creating Your Best Work in Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2 Details You Should Know 4 Submitting Your Microsoft® PowerPoint® File 5 Using Microsoft® PowerPoint Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is widely used in business and education to create slides to accompany live presentations. Microsoft® PowerPoint® files contain slides that are presented sequentially, most often by means of a computer running the software connected to a projector. Microsoft® PowerPoint® is the software used to create slides, organize them into a slideshow, and present them. * When used in a live presentation, the presenter uses the mouse button, the spacebar, or the arrow keys to advance to the next slide. * To help make the slides more interesting, Microsoft® PowerPoint® provides a number of visual styles and themes so that all slides can have a similar look. * Each theme or style accommodates a number of slide types in the form of empty slide templates, which may then be populated with content. Among the many templates are title slides, bullet-point slides, slides with spaces for images, and so on. * In addition, the creator can control transitions between slides and other simple animations, such...
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...Paper of Microsoft Vincent Borja, Bonnie Broughton, Carrie Holland, Bonejean Jordan, Kat Kegley FIN/370 June 17, 2013 Beth Gannouni Introduction – Carrie In this paper Microsoft’s filings for the SEC and their annual reports will be analyzed. It will show the role of ethics and compliance in the financial environment of Microsoft, and describe what procedures Microsoft has in place to ensure that their actions are done with ethical behavior. It will also show what processes Microsoft used to insure they are in compliance with the regulations of the SEC. It also shows an evaluation of Microsoft’s financial performance for the past two years, the trend of each ratio, and what the financial health is for Microsoft. Role of ethics and compliance of Microsoft’s financial environment - Kat Microsoft is an organization that handles issues of technology through the production of computing products, which are useful for many organizations. The financial environment of Microsoft plays an enormous role in determining and analyzing the future status of the company. In this case, compliance committee within the organization helps in meeting set rules and objectives set by the company. Ever since the formation of Microsoft by Bill Gates, financial environment has been sustainable (Biegelman & Biegelman, 2010). This means that all people who work within the organization work hard to ensure that goals are achieved rather than working in order to be paid. Microsoft values satisfactory...
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...index any of the keywords the user list in the web browser. The results are ranked in the order of importance. Companies like Goggle, and Microsoft has turned the web searching services into a leading global industry. Notably, Microsoft has dominated the software and hardware technology industry with award winning products and services since 197 According to Mr. Ballmer “If we don’t get what the customer really wants, we keep going. It took us three attempts to get Windows right. And if we had given up after the first attempt, or second attempt, Microsoft wouldn’t look anything like it does today (Wharton, 2007)”. As a result of this, Mr. Ballmer is setting the tone of being patient, while being persistent with his long-term focuses. Steve Ballmer believes that a good leader must be adaptive to whatever the situation the business is facing. The most valuable leadership skill is listening to people talk about their experiences. But most importantly anyone who wants to be a leader, must have passion. Mr. Ballmer stated that: “You got to love what you are doing (Wharton, 2007)”. information from millions of sites and databases. The results are retrieved by mathematical /algorithms formulas, that index any of the keywords the user list in the web browser. The results are ranked in the order of importance. Companies like Goggle, and Microsoft has turned the web searching...
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...Ratio analysis of Intel and Microsoft in 2013 LNU SWIBS Management 3 Ellie 126602308 The two companies I chose are Microsoft Inc.’s and Intel Corporation’s. Microsoft. Based on the compare with these ratios, we could do some fundamental analysis of risk level and profitability of Intel and Microsoft, to appraise the financial performance and financial position of two companies. The relative ratios of two companies are calculated as follows： Ratio | Intel | Microsoft | return on equity=net profitsharesholder's funds(equity)×100% | 962058256=0.17 | 496578944=0.06 | asset turnover=salessharesholder's funds(equity)×100% | 5270858256=0.90 | 1989678944=0.25 | net profit margin=net profit (before or) after taxsales×100% | 962052708=0.18 | 496519896=0.25 | gross profit=gross profitsales×100% | 3152152708=0.60 | 1429419896=0.72 | operating profit=operating profitsales×100% | 1229152708=0.23 | 607319896=0.31 | current ratio=current assetscurrent liability×100% | 3208413568=2.36 | 7491828774=2.60 | stock-holding period=inventorycosts of sales×365 | 417221187×365=71.8 | 19385602×365=126 | average debtors collection period=trade receivablessales×365days | 617652708×365=42.8 | 1911819896×365=350.7 | average creditors payment period=trade payablessales×365days | 1119121187×365=192.8 | 101825602×365=663.4 | gearing=all borrowingssharesholder;s funds(equity)×100% | 1316558256=0.23 | 1260178944=0.16 | The ratio will be analyzed from four areas of interest: profitability, liquidity...
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...* Microsoft is now much smaller than Apple, but growing faster. * Microsoft is seeking the bulk of its new money from subscriptions, not product sales. * It may be time for Apple AND Microsoft in your portfolio. For most of this century, the choice between Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been a no-brainer. You buy Apple. You leave Microsoft alone. But under Satya Nadella, who became Microsoft CEO about a year ago, that may be changing. Suddenly it's Microsoft that has momentum, potential and opportunity, while Apple seems to be slowing down. Take the top line. For the 12 months between fiscal 2013 and 2014, Apple grew sales from $170.9 billion to $182.8 billion. That's a gain of about 7%. For Microsoft, sales grew from $77.9 billion to $88.8 billion. That's a gain of 11%. Through the third quarter (Microsoft reports its Christmas quarter on Monday) the company was bringing 19.5% of its revenue to the net income line. Apple was bringing in 20%. Apple is now worth 70% more than Microsoft, $644 billion vs. $379 billion. Now look at what's coming. From Apple, a new Phone, a new Watch, the headphones and music service it bought with Beats. From Microsoft, a downloaded Windows that updates like iOS, a holographic headset with software and a competitive Azure cloud. Remember, Microsoft is growing from a smaller base, with barely half of Apple's sales. Apple hasn't always been the smart bet. In fact, if you had bought shares in both at their IPOs and just...
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...need a system that will allow us to pull information from service departments up to the executive level. Microsoft access is a database application system that manages and organizes data in a way that allows the information that has been stored to be retrieved from multiple sources. MS Access has the look and feel of other MS Office products and has a similar layout which will simplify the changes. Implementation of Microsoft Access We currently use Microsoft Excel to store our data even though it is not a database. Moving data to Microsoft Access by importing from Excel will let us test the waters every step of the way. We will be able to use Access reports, forms, filtering, sorting, and querying with Excel data. Access is designed for all user types but as with any new system requires time and use to get comfortable with. Benefits of Microsoft Access Microsoft Access is a low cost business tool that fills many business needs. Microsoft Access is user friendly and is similar to other Microsoft Office Applications. As the business continues to grow and change Microsoft Access is able to be upgraded and intergraded into other systems. There are templates and wizards to help you build your database or you can build it from scratch. Multiple departments can retrieve information for various queries and reports. The application is flexible and speedy allowing for a quick look at information or a detailed report. In conclusion in order to provide our customers with the service...
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...Running head: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Financial Management: Comparing Google’s Business Model/ Financial Management with Microsoft By: Zanthe Gillison Strayer University Financial Management: Comparing Google’s Business Model/ Financial Management with Bing Google is doing bigger and better things in the world of internet media searching. Despite the challenges with other big names in Internet technology, Google and Microsoft have still remained to be leaders. In this paper, I will show comparison views of Google’s business model and financial management with Microsoft’s launch with Bing. Taking a look into Google and Microsoft core business, leading products and services, management and leadership styles, and innovation track record we will have the opportunity to compare the two businesses in and appendix. Google is known to be the leading internet media website’s in the world. Google and Microsoft are well-known internet information websites. Although, Microsoft is in business for more than searching the internet, Microsoft is known to be the world’s leading producer and marketer of computer software. Google’s product line and services are for Google products only. Google’s products include services that will enhance your desktop features such as Google Chrome and Google desktop which is an organizational tool that gives the customer the option to design and edit photos, organize personal and business information, search, and communicate with...
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