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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a devices" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a device" if referring to a single item or "devices" if referring to multiple items without the article "a."
Example: "I need a device that can help me track my fitness goals."
Alternatives: "a gadget" or "an instrument."
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A: Devices encrypted with BitLocker Drive Encryption and FileVault 2 will not require any additional steps to access your data.
Or should it keep it for the Surface tablet, as a devices business would?
At 57, he has decided to make way for a successor who can guide "our transformation to a devices and services company".
Stephen Oesterle of Medtronic, a devices firm involved in remote patient monitoring, thinks it a bit Orwellian for drugmakers to keep such intimate tabs on their customers.
When Mr Ballmer declared in an opaque memo last year that Microsoft would henceforth be a "devices and services" company, his meaning wasn't entirely clear.
FOR some time, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, has been saying that the software giant needs to think of itself as a "devices and services" company.
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Last year, when Ballmer was championing the Nokia acquisition, he described Microsoft as a devices-and-services company.
Its first mainstream computing device, and a precursor to the kind of thing it wants to produce as a devices-and-services company, appeared in 2001: the Xbox.
Would such a device help?
"Everything is a device.
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