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The spy in your living room

Vox

Theres the hardware, namely the TV itself; the entertainment, like movies and shows; and the ads, usually just commercials that interrupt your movies and shows. While most people think of Roku as a hardware company, it actually transitioned into becoming an advertising company almost a decade ago.

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Google: Innovating in AI but can they catch up with cloud leaders?

CTOvision

From an enterprise IT standpoint, their championing of the Android operating system has earned them a place in the mobility domain, and their Google Apps offering helped show many businesses that the cloud can work for office automation. But the majority of their business is still today selling advertisements.

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MicroSoft: Still dominating in enterprise office automation

CTOvision

The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. The Company operates in five segments: Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing, D&C Hardware, D&C Other, Commercial Licensing, and Commercial Other.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? November 2005 (8).

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Microsoft says Windows 11’s File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

The Verge

While the ads can be easily dismissed, they’re still a frustrating experience in an operating system that’s traditionally been ad-free. Sadly, Microsoft isn’t alone in advertising its own services in its operating system or apps. Microsoft has been experimenting with ads inside Windows for a decade now.

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Number of US Government IT Facilities Rises to 7000 - Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Agency must have sufficient information to calculate a cost of operating system per hour (COSH) score. Virtualization must be at least 40% – Virtualization is defined as a technology that allows multiple, software-based machines, with different operating systems, to run in isolation, side-by-side, on the same physical machine.

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Why Facebook and Apple are fighting over your privacy

Vox

Angry CEOs, operating system updates, and maybe even a lawsuit — the feud continues. Apple’s tracking-optional mobile operating system update is coming to iPhones this spring, and the new privacy-preserving features will give users the ability to opt out of being followed around the internet via trackers in their apps.

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