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Windows CE is interoperable with the desktop operating system, ... I think Microsoft already dominates this space. It's going to be very tough.

Windows CE is interoperable with the desktop operating system. I think Microsoft already dominates this space. It's going to be very tough.

Windows get more viruses than Macs and UNIX systems, yes, but Macs are not immune. That's just a fundamental design issue in the operating systems.

Microsoft has a monopoly in computer operating systems, ... Microsoft the gateway to the Internet.

Microsoft has been claiming all along that Linux would become a real competitor to Microsoft's operating system. If you stretch this out long enough, who knows, they could be right. Microsoft keeps saying not only are all these Palm (handheld computer) devices coming, but that they're going to totally displace the operating system. If you stretch this out a year, two years, that could happen.

Microsoft has realized that, at the end of the day, it can't make much money from selling operating systems for handsets. Instead, it's now looking at an even bigger opportunity.

Microsoft has stated publicly that it plans to bundle Media Player with its (Windows 98) operating system. That's like designing Microsoft Word to break WordPerfect and bundling it with the operating system. Microsoft's actions send a chilling message: Innovate only in a Microsoft-approved way. What Microsoft is doing is wrong and must be stopped.

Most large organizations have a big investment in Symantec tools and wouldn't normally consider switching. This year, however, Symantec's products have repeatedly shown up on the list of the software with critical new security vulnerabilities. Many corporate IT managers are angry and frustrated that their security vendor is as careless as the operating system vendors in writing bad code. And Microsoft has succeeded in persuading many of them that they are far ahead of other software vendors in improving the situation for new products.

You'll actually see the operating system that people have been asking for years and are finally going to get. It should be more stable and more reliable. ... The breaking-every-day part goes away with this product.

You'll see the applications group supporting alternative operating systems, and the operating systems company offering its own alternative operating systems. And the winners are going to be consumers because there will be more choice and lower cost.

We intend to make 2006 the most successful year in our company's history, both in terms of unit sales and our operating earnings.

We have our own police force, harbor patrol, customs officers, and Coast Guard. That won't change no matter who is operating the terminal.

Most of their operating profit comes from the U.S.. Everyone's been hurt by rising oil and gas, especially smaller and mid-sized pickups.

Under the circumstances, it is difficult to envisage the United Nations operating with a large number of international staff inside Iraq in the near future unless there is an unexpected and significant improvement in the overall security situation,

Unlike RISC systems, Itanium allows a broad choice of operating systems, software and hardware.

We've been hearing for several years now that the industry is operating on a razor's edge due to a small amount of refining capacity we have in the United States in relation to demand.

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

We need the money now or we will be forced to scale down food deliveries. So far, we have been operating on reserves, and borrowing ... and the pipeline is drying up.

You know all those extra lines of code that we sometimes refer to as bloatware. It's actually very important and efficient stuff. There is some very substantial functionality built into the operating system.

We have now come to the conclusion that the only way to be certain of satisfying the Commission's demands is to go beyond the 2004 Decision and offer a license to the source code of the Windows server operating system. The Windows source code is the ultimate documentation.

There are no terrorists' cells actively operating in Malaysia as far as the government is concerned,

Microsoft is long overdue in creating a consumer operating system that includes core features for media, entertainment, and family security, and Vista will include much of this ability.

Microsoft is not going to establish a chokehold on the information appliances industry. These appliances don't need a standardized operating system the way PCs do. In many cases, the consumer will have no idea what the operating system is, since it's meant to be completely hidden.

Microsoft, I think, looks especially attractive at these levels. Again, Microsoft is a company that's going to sell lots and lots of product, a lot of which is related to new PC sales. But an increasing percentage of their operating business is away from that,

Microsoft's operating system was never designed with security in mind. For Microsoft, security is always an afterthought.

Microsoft's response is not at all unexpected. We continue to believe that a breakup of this company is arbitrary, given the increasingly blurred line between application and operating systems. We believe that the company should win on appeal.

Microsoft's whole company's practice had been based on doing a great job on Windows and leaving integration with other operating systems to the third-party partners. Now they are trying not to make decisions that make it harder to manage other platforms.

Microsoft wants its operating system to be ubiquitous in all devices. It's a strategy they've been mapping out forever. Whatever the future is, that's where they'll be.

Microsoft wants the operating system and their tools to have all the value so that users don't need to go outside of the family. It drives Microsoft crazy that people spend a ton of money with EMC and Veritas on boring old storage issues.

Microsoft will release some versions of the new operating system for big businesses in November as planned, but the consumer version will be postponed until January.

We can see a route whereby our existing capability is applied to others' customers and back-office costs and operating synergies can be achieved,

Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job. The application just tells the operating system to go do something, so anything you do to make the operating system faster makes the whole process faster.

which are the principal competitors of railroads and, in the process, we're going to grow our revenue and operating income.

While an uncertain market may overshadow the impact of some of our restructuring initiatives in the short-term, the implementation of various operating efficiencies and the selective refocusing of business units will allow us to strengthen our foundation for future growth in addition to maintaining a commitment to building long-term shareholder value,

We do not encourage people to have video screens operating where the driver can see them.

We can't be certain of everything operating at current high numbers, ... We can't count on one-year results to make heavy spending announcements. As politically great as it sounds it wouldn't be responsible financial management.

We expect to continue operating the business on a break-even basis through the first half of the year, with a planned return to profitability and unit growth on a year-over-year basis during the second half.

We continued to produce outstanding results, with nine-month earnings 35 percent ahead of last year's record pace. Our third-quarter results reflect significant breadth, with record operating results in Discover Card and asset management and another outstanding quarter in the securities business.

We continue to balance investments in gross margin and improved customer service with operating cost reductions to provide a better shopping experience for our customers.

We continue to make progress toward reaching pro forma operating profitability in the fourth quarter of 2001, ... This quarter, the U.S. was profitable on a pro forma operating basis for the first time, and this is our sixth sequential quarter of improved absolute pro forma operating results.

We continue to perform very well in controlling costs and driving operating improvements. Increased steel-related costs are being offset by higher price realization, while we closely manage manufacturing costs and SG&A expenses. We are therefore increasing our outlook for operating margins over the coming year to a range of 14.6 to 15.5 percent of sales from the previous outlook averaging 13.3 percent.

We're currently discussing that. It would be great to have, but we would like someone else to run that. We're good at operating a theater, so we'll leave that to someone that's good at running an inn.

We have to play the hottest team in the conference and we didn't play particularly well against them last time. Stetson has as good of a chance as anyone to win this thing. We need everybody operating on all cylinders.

We'll continue to do what we've done for the last three or four years - look at keeping our operating costs down.

We don't feel like we have any habitual offenders at the airport. Otherwise they wouldn't be operating at the airport.

We have taken steps to improve our growth prospects by making management changes and upgrades at a number of key operating units,

We hope to arrive at a mutually satisfactory set of operating procedures. If that doesn't happen, it will be hard to get commodities from our donors.

We believe the next appropriate step in this process is to explore strategic alternatives for our Parisian specialty department store business, which could include its sale. We believe there is a very bright future for this unique franchise, and that meaningful opportunity exists for continued revenue growth and substantial operating income improvement.

We believe the recent share price does not reflect the continued improvement in the company's operating results or the growth prospects made possible by our continuing success with new products and new stores.

We believe the shares fail to reflect the company's market position or growth potential. We believe overall margins have the potential to expand by 50 to 100 basis points over the next several years and operating profits can grow at a low double-digit rate. Earnings per share could expand by a low-teens rate over the next several years.

We believe the Street should view the 41 cents per share number as the truest operating metric and therefore applaud this morning's report card.

We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.

Well, tonight he spelled out the plan we've been operating under and that we're going to move forward with to create an independent Iraq and turn the government of Iraq over to the Iraqi people.

Well, I think the operating assumption of everybody is that Novak has provided information to Fitzgerald in one form or another.

We've kind of gotten into a little bit of a rhythm the last four weeks, more us. That identity was one that was very good for us last year, and we've been operating pretty good with that the last month.

We've made much progress in this past quarter, especially in getting our inventory more closely aligned with sales, restructuring our organization into functional operating units and putting people in key leadership roles,

We've made significant progress in our cost savings initiatives, with reductions in all operating expense categories, ... Hasbro's management team remains focused and the expense reduction initiatives we began last year are a major step towards our most important objective of returning as quickly as possible to the profitability levels we have had historically.

We ended 2005 on a very strong note, and achieved record revenues and operating cash flow for the year. We successfully managed through a period of increased energy costs and generated higher free cash flow to improve our credit quality. Over the course of the year, we achieved many strategic milestones, including the acquisition of a major wind energy company in the U.S. and the start of many new projects and platform expansions in various markets around the world.

We entered fiscal 2006 knowing market conditions would be difficult, especially early in the year. During the first quarter, our chicken segment generated solid results and prepared foods improved, while pork struggled and beef further deteriorated, producing significant operating losses.

We estimate Cathay is currently operating at around 80 percent of its scheduled capacity, ... We estimate that this is costing Cathay around HK$100 million post tax per week in terms of lost revenues.

We estimate that Oracle will have to cut Siebel's operating costs by approximately...$350 million to $400 million in order to meet its previously stated accretion goals.

We estimate the assumption of these contracts by Tennessee Tire Recyclers and the pending closure of our Tennessee facility in September will relieve us of obligations that have negatively contributed to our operating losses over the past several years and will positively impact our overall corporate cash flow by over $150,000 per month. We anticipate the transition of assigning all contracts to be completed within 90 days and will redeploy all remaining Tennessee equipment to other locations during that timeframe.

We executed well strategically and financially this year. Our company focus continues to be on generating strong operating cash flow by being in control of the growth of our brands and by fine tuning our global operations.

We expect an even tougher operating environment in the next months, especially in the information and communications area,

We finally are operating with a full staff, ... And it?s been nice. But things happen around the clock. Even after you solve the crimes, there?s crime reports, grand jury appearances, trial testimony. If you have enough personnel to spread that workload out, the less impact it has on other staff members.

We'll also beef up our software development capability because software is essential for operating digital consumer electronics. We are now far short of the software engineers we need.

That's the largest increase that we can find. We don't believe the numbers were higher since we began operating PATH in 1962.

That would have hurt both fees and operating income.

That would increase unemployment and hurt our economy, and commercial banks could also face a difficult operating environment.

The fact of the matter is criminals have been operating in seaports a long, long time. The bad guys know how open the system is. The good guys don't seem to have a real command on it here because we haven't paid as much attention to this problem as we need to.

The fact that Intel doesn't really offer very low-power x86 devices that are compatible with the Internet infrastructure and Microsoft really doesn't offer a robust Internet operating system that can be used without a hard disk drive has led to this opening. We've capitalized on both of those vectors, and customers like it and are buying it.

The fact that Linux provides a true alternative to the Windows operating system,

We've seen an industry-wide slower start to the tax filing season than in previous years. Early season operating challenges experienced in our tax business further hurt our January comparative results.

There are a lot of companies out there whose essential business operating concept is past its prime and therefore their comparable sales are on a gradual decline.

What we came to realize is the best way to protect the Bay is to keep a farmer farming. We'd much rather have a farm operating than having a suburban development go in.

The pool has seen dramatically declining use since the mid-1990s. We've been operating in the red, but fewer people are coming each year.

There are some risks and challenges. As they expand internationally, their costs are going to go up. So we'll still see that top-line growth, but we'll see some pinch there on the costs and the operating margins.

There are some sorts of things that individual companies or individuals can't handle, like national defense or the court system, or whatever. That's why we have the Sherman Antitrust and monopoly laws on the books, because the government has to step in when a company is not operating under market discipline.

There are nearly 300 million PC users out there now, and so that gives us a very, very broad market. So we can put far more, you know, ten times more into R&D of the operating system, yet make it available for one-tenth or less the price.

We hope to have most of the funds raised by the July 2006 Woodford County 4-H Fair, and have the new building up and operating for the 2007 fair.

We're a company in bankruptcy and have been operating on borrowed money.

This was a solid performance in the face of continuing stiff headwinds from rising raw material and energy costs and currency movements, and reflects a sharp focus on managing the things within our control and the steady execution of our operating agenda,

This project demonstrates the value of combining energy efficiency and clean energy technology. The savings created by new, efficient equipment at these facilities are helping to pay for clean, alternative energy - solar and hydrogen fuel cell power. We commend the Postal Service for implementing a comprehensive, cost-effective solution that meets operating needs, improves the employees' work space and benefits the environment.

We have identified three organized gangs and four neighborhood crews operating within the city. For a lot of youth these gangs offer some type of structure to their lives. Gangs and crews provide a pseudo-family component.

were handled in accordance with normal operating procedures.

We're having definite problems at DFW today, ... Our best guess is that ... we'll be operating approximately 50 percent of our flights.

We're having definite problems at DFW today. Our best guess is that ... we'll be operating approximately 50 percent of our flights.

We are taking this step so that short of a full effort, investors and broker/dealers will know that they are operating in a regulated environment.

There is no doubt that, as Microsoft and other vendors continue to improve the security of their base operating systems, malicious code writers will 'move up the stack' and target applications.

There is no doubt that the operating environment won't get any easier for (general retailers) next year. Supermarkets continue their onward march into the sector.

Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.

Today's announcement didn't do anything to calm my fears. They are probably still negotiating with their banks, but I can't believe the only issue is the credit rating. Deals don't blow up over ratings. Banks care about operating results.

We have made a good start to the year and we can maintain our full year guidance of 6 percent organic operating profit growth despite absorbing an increase in the cost of executing additional productivity initiatives in the second half,

We have made great strides in operating efficiencies in the third quarter and remain committed to building a leading Internet media company,

The question is, to what degree can Microsoft integrate what's on the operating system with the services it offers on the Web and avoid tripping over the antitrust issue? I think Microsoft is very sensitive to this.

There is less traffic going to Miami and some of the Florida airports, but the weather system that's operating along the whole East Coast is probably having a bigger impact on travel.

There are a variety of operating restrictions that have been imposed on the operation of the casino resort itself . . . the market size is unknown.

The rate increase is across the board. Programming costs continually go up, and of course our operating costs go up. It's the same things that always drive it.

The ratings reflect the company's strong competitive position and strong operating performance. These positive factors are offset by the lack of available market instruments to allow full asset-liability management.

Wal-Mart's EPS growth is twice that of the S&P. For the third consecutive year it has seen an increase in operating margins and we believe it still has tremendous growth opportunity over the next 5 to 10 years both domestically and abroad. At the very least, this should allow the stock to come off the low-end of the trading range and move higher.