Windows Vista Desktop Optimization Pack Updated
Microsoft has announced that it wrapped up its Desktop Optimization Pack for Windows Vista and that an updated and complete version of the offering will be made available for download on July 1 2007.
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5.6.2007 Microsoft: Take Advantage of the Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is designed to help customers get the most out of their Windows Vista clients, according to Microsoft's official description of the solution.
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16.7.2008 Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2 RTM
Since the introduction of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, the Redmond company has sold in excess of 10 million units of the package of solutions, and on September 15, the R2 version of MDOP 2008 was released to manufacturing.
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16.9.2008 Windows 7 RTM Desktop Optimization Pack Available
The latest version of the Desktop Optimization Pack offered by Microsoft is tailored to the company’s most recent iteration of the Windows operating system.
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21.10.2009 Windows 7 Network Optimization, Virtualization, Devices Profile
With Windows 7, Microsoft is not only working to steer away from the mistakes made with Windows Vista, but also to move on territories where the successor of Windows XP has failed to gain a consistent level of traction.
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9.11.2008 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP2
We are all well aware of the limping start of Vista on the OS market. Despite the fact that its launch had been highly anticipated for a good while, contrary to all Microsoft expectations, Vista was received with great reluctance and unwillingness on the part of XP fans.
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13.12.2008 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007Roundtable Q&A: Infrastructure Optimization Benefits Companies at All Stages of IT Investment
IT experts focus on how
organizations can cut costs
and enhance business agility
with licensing solutions that
simplify Infrastructure
Optimization...
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29.05.2007Microsoft Promises Vista Version Of Softgrid
Microsoft said Monday that the
Vista version of its
http://www.softricity.com/>Sof
tgrid application
virtualization product and
enhanced asset management and
desktop monitoring will be
available July 1.
The
updated Softgrid platform is
part of Microsoft's Desktop
Optimization Pack for its
Software Assurance customers
who buy software maintenance
contracts. The Windows Vista
client has been widely
available since early this
year.
As part of the
version 2.0 Optimization Pack,
which was released to
manufacturing this week,
Microsoft will release
enhanced asset inventory
services, including a
Vista-compatible version of
Asset Inventory Service, a
byproduct of the company's
acquisition of AssetMetrix. ..
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04.06.2007Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 Released
Chris Flores: Today marks the release of the
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2008 - a set of tools for
IT Pros managing IT environments for companies who have purchased MDOP plus Windows
Software Assurance agreements with Microsoft. There are two key product updates in
this release I'd like to highlight that I think IT Pros will find very useful - Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 6.0 (DaRT) and Desktop Error
Monitoring 3.0 SP1 (DEM).
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01.04.2008Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide Released
The BizTalk Customer Advisory Team and BizTalk UE team are pleased to announce the first edition of the "
Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide".
The
Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide is the second installment in a series of guides intended to provide easily accessible,
hands-on guidance to our customer and partner community. This 228 page guide is available on
MSDN,
TechNet and as a separate DOCX or CHM
download alongside the already available “
Microsoft BizTalk Operations Guide”
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09.07.2008Don't wait for Windows 7: realize the benefts of Vista now
Some customers are considering whether to deploy Windows Vista or whether to skip in anticipation of Windows 7.
The discussion is often phrased
as one of balancing costs and timing of releases. By not deploying Windows Vista, it means missing out on the proven benefts such as better security,
productivity, search, mobility, manageability, and infrastructure optimization. Windows Vista works with more applications and devices than ever
before and can be signifcantly less expensive to support than Windows XP SP3.
There is no need to wait for Windows 7. It is a goal of the
Windows 7 release to minimize application compatibility for customers who have deployed Windows Vista since there was considerable kernel and device
level innovation in Windows Vista. The Windows 7 release is expected to have only minor changes in these areas. Customers who are still using Windows
XP when Windows 7 releases will have a similar application compatibility experience moving to Windows 7 as exists moving to Windows Vista from Windows
XP.
Historically, mainstream deployment occurs not when Microsoft releases a product but 18 months later. While the mainstream deployment
cycle is beginning for Windows Vista now, it isn’t expected to begin for Windows 7 until at least mid-2011
Read full story.....
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06.06.2008TechEd 2007: Software Assurance Licensees to Get Error Reporting Tool
Software Assurance licensees
for Microsoft Windows clients,
including XP and Vista, will
soon be receiving a utility
called System Center Desktop
Error Monitoring as part of
the Desktop Optimization Pack
(MDOP) they receive with their
licenses. As we learned at
TechEd, the utility will
enable admins to produce
aggregate reports that track
problems throughout an entire
enterprise...
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05.06.2007SanDisk won't specify Vista SSD problems, but is 'working with Microsoft'
Amid complaints that Windows Vista is hurting the development of solid state drives, SanDisk now says it is working with Microsoft to optimize SSDs
for "the Windows experience." But the company refused to provide details of Vista's problem, and Microsoft seemed unaware of the collaboration.
In a statement to BetaNews today, Richard Heyes, who heads up SanDisk's SSD Business Unit, didn't elaborate on the areas of
optimization, although he did talk about SSD performance on "full-featured" operating systems such as Windows Vista vs. "simple" systems such as
XP Starter Edition -- and he predicted that operating systems in general will become more "SSD aware" in the future.
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24.07.2008Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack Sets Sales Record
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance has been the fastest selling Version 1 product in the history of Microsoft's volume
license program, with more than 3 million licenses sold over the past nine months.
The product is only available to those
customers who have a Windows Client volume license with Software Assurance, a fact that had not been an obstacle to adoption, said Brad Anderson, the
general manager for the Windows and Enterprise management division, at a press conference at the TechEd IT Forum here Nov. 12.
Anderson's comments came ahead of the conference's opening keynote address by Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server
marketing.
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13.11.2007TweakVista Beta Now Available
TweakVista is a utility that enables
users to optimize the
performance and behavior of
Windows Vista. The program has
been designed to allow both
casual, non-technical users to
safely use it as well as
contain a host of advanced
features for power users to
dig into the internals of
Windows Vista.
The
feature-packed utility
includes features such as:
- Security Handling:
Users can now easily and
safely adjust the way Windows
handles security prompting
including the new UAC (User
Account Control)
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Memory Optimization:
TweakVista knows which
start-up services different
types of users will typically
use and offers recommendations
on what services to disable.
Users can easily switch
between different profiles
(including the default) based
on their needs to maximize
performance and memory use.
- Resource Control: Tweak
Vista has several features for
keeping an eye on and flagging
programs that use excessive
amounts of resources (memory,
CPU, or system handles) as
well as integrating seamlessly
with built in hardware
diagnostic reports...
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21.06.2007Google offers search optimization advice for Webmasters
They're not guaranteeing users the coveted top spots on search results, but Google's got a free guide for those looking to make their Web pages as
tasty as possible to the search giant's robot spiders...
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15.11.2008SAM Optimization Model Helps Move Customers Toward Dynamic IT
Q&A: Michael Beare, director of license compliance at Microsoft, discusses a new approach to software asset management (SAM) that provides Microsofts
partners and customers with a clear path to optimized software assets...
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07.07.2008Microsoft releases Windows-7-friendly version of Desktop Optimization Pack
Microsoft officials last month said they had revised their Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) plans so as to get a Windows-7-friendly version
of its tools out to businesses around the time of the Windows 7 launch.
On October 20, the MDOP team announced that
the newest version of MDOP isready for download.
Software Assurance licensees who’ve purchased MDOP can get the final
MDOP 2009 R2, as the revised version
of the pack is known. And those who aren’t already customers but who have MSDN/TechNet subscriptions can try it out today, as well.
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20.10.2009Microsoft Brings Desktop Management To The Channel
Microsoft has been building a
comprehensive set of desktop
management tools and selling
them directly to enterprises.
Now, Microsoft wants to see
what the channel can do with
these tools.
On
Monday at its worldwide
partner conference in Denver,
Microsoft unveiled Windows
Partner Solutions, which
combines Vista Enterprise
Edition with Microsoft's
Desktop Optimization Pack
(DOP), a subscription offering
for Software Assurance
maintenance contract customers
that includes technologies
from several recent Microsoft
acquisitions.
DOP
includes application
virtualization software from
Softricity, inventory services
from AssetMetrix, group policy
management software from
DesktopStandard, and recovery
software from Winternals. ..
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09.07.2007WinBubble 1.6 was released
A Windows Vista tweaker, able to do with two mouse clicks what it would take a beginner and expert user several minutes or even hours deep inside the
Windows registry. WinBubble 1.0 to 1.5, "Bridging the Gap" started as a way to tweak and customize the amazing Vista screensavers. Remember this
message box? "This screensaver has no options that you can set.”
Now it has become a major aid to making Windows Vista look, feel
and act the way you want it to. WinBubble 1.6 will start the idea of simplicity combined with knowledge. In just two clicks, WinBubble will help you
to Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista easily.
Its features cover Customization, Security and Optimization.
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01.02.2008IBM makes good on its Cognos buyout with 16 new products
Last November, we wondered what IBM expects to come out of its acquisition of Canadian business intelligence software provider Cognos. This morning we
found out, as Big Blue enters the "business optimization" business...
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07.02.2008Tim Sweeney on UT3 Specs & Peformance
http://www.beyondunreal.com/da
edalus/singlepost.php?id=10581
>Beyond Unreal noticed a
http://forums.epicgames.com/sh
owthread.php?t=571019>thread
on the Epic Megaboards that
translates a Tim Sweeney
interview with German
magazine, PC Games Hardware.
Here are a couple juicy
samples:
PCGH:
How do the general hardware
requirements look like?
Epic: Since optimization work
is still ongoing, these
details may change every day.
Generally speaking, the game
runs quite smooth with DX9
hardware released by NVidia
and Ati since 2006. On
high-end cards, including the
DX10 models, UT3 runs
incredibly smooth already.
Additionally, we also support
shader 2.0 graphics hardware,
with only a few technical
limitations.
PCGH: How exactly are you
utilizing the functions of
DirectX 10?
Epic:
Unreal Tournament 3 will ship
with full DX10 support, with
multi-sampling being the
biggest visible benefit of the
new graphics interface.
Additionally, with DX10 under
Vista we have the possibility
to use the video memory more
efficiently, to be able to
display textures with a higher
grade of detail as it would be
possible with the DX9 path of
Vista. ..
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30.05.2007SLI Under The Microscope: Vista vs. XP
Upon its release, it was expected that even the most ardent power users and enthusiasts were going to tread lightly at first with respect to adopting
Windows Vista as their primary OS. Though end users in this demographic are classically early adopters, in terms of new hardware technologies coming
to market, an operating system change brings with it a whole myriad of pitfalls, from backwards compatibility to stability and performance issues,
which are all understood to be "part of the deal" with any new OS. In reality, many folks migrate to a new OS platform over time, opting to dip
their toe carefully into the pool with less critical usage models, like running it on a backup machine or secondary notebook, for example, at least
initially.
Gamers, on the other hand, are perhaps a breed apart, in that many are risk takers, (should we say thrill-seekers
maybe?) willing to take it on the chin with their gaming rig in an effort to have the latest and greatest in both hardware and software technologies.
In short, a risky new OS move to Vista is especially tempting for gamers, with the advent of DirectX 10, which is only supported by Microsoft's new
OS.
However, our early findings were mixed with respect to Vista's gaming performance and certainly with a few games that had
a DX10 rendering mode, performance just wasn't up to par with Windows XP, which has years of ring-out and performance optimization behind it. This
all seemed logical but the view with Vista was even more bleak if you were running a pair of NVIDIA graphics cards in SLI mode. Performance in Vista
on this type of system, in either DX9 or DX10 mode just wasn't where it needed to be.
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26.09.2007Microsoft Outlines Partner Strategy to Help Customers Achieve Optimal Software Asset Management
Q&A: Juan Fernando Rivera,
director of anti-piracy at
Microsoft, discusses expanded
software asset management
tools and partner program
investments that will provide
customers with insights to
help them achieve
infrastructure optimization...
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11.07.2007TweakVI for Windows Vista v1 build 1026
Optimize and tweak Windows
Vista with TweakVI v1.0 -
Basic Edition is
Freeware!
Totalidea Software has
released TweakVI, an
application that adds up to 28
time-saving productivity
improvements to Windows Vista.
In addition to tuning Windows
Vista to run faster,
TweakVI's easy-to-use
functions let you tailor the
Windows interface to meet your
personal needs: create
snapshots of your system's
configuration to transfer your
settings to other machines.
TweakVI v1.0 is
available in three different
editions: the free 'Basic
Edition', which contains all
the basic tweaking features
for standard system tweaking,
the 'Premium Edition', which
gives you access to much more
tweaking and system
optimization features, and the
'Ultimate Edition', for
complete control on Windows
Vista, with all plugins
currently available for
TweakVI.
Build 1026
is now available with several
improvements and fixes.
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07.12.2006Vista Pushes Volume Licensing
During Microsoft's annual
financial analysts conference
today, the company's chief
operating officer boasted
about increases in Windows
volume licensing.
It's the "best rate
we've seen in many, many
years," Kevin Turner said of
annuity licensing contracts.
He acknowledged that Windows
Vista Enterprise and MDOP
(Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack) were major
drivers. Both products can
only be purchased by way of
volume licensing contract. By
contrast, Windows XP
Professional and supporting
tools could be purchased
without a volume licensing
contract.
Turner said that about 42
millions PCs are covered by
volume licensing. Among
midsize businesses and
enterprise, Windows annuity
contract penetration is 19
percent, he said.
"I think it moved a point
of two." Turner said about
Windows volume licensing
increases.
Historically, about 80
percent of Windows client
revenue comes from OEMs.
Microsoft wants to shiftsome
could say forcecustomers to
volume licensing, which would
further smooth out
Microsoft's balance sheet.
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