It's not too hard to imagine a lot of more lucrative applications.
Microsoft plans to make Yammer part of a division responsible for selling Office, a suite of lucrative applications for businesses that are increasingly facing challenges from inexpensive online alternatives.
And by having a clearer idea of how much fluid is going where, the fracking process can be constantly adjusted so that it runs in the most efficient way.Listening for intruders and monitoring the efficiency of fracking are just two of the potentially lucrative applications of DAS technology.
The theory was, rather, that Microsoft believed that the browser could be used as a beachhead for an invasion of the lucrative applications market, which Microsoft also dominates with market shares in excess of 85%.
Although the service can run any Windows based app, Bozinovic stated that the company will stay away from cloud gaming and focus on the lucrative professional application market instead by focusing on design, CAD, and HPC visualization.
In return Qualcomm collects a toll of as much as 10% of the revenue from each purchase of a Brew application, a lucrative deal that raises eyebrows in the industry.
And when they do, they'll bring a tremendous amount of innovation potential to the application market, lucrative opportunities for mobile advertisers, and privacy concerns that make those around the rise of mobile location services over the past five years look like a minor concern.
Ms. Hood, 41, joined Microsoft in late 2002 and was most recently the chief financial officer of Microsoft's business division, the unit that oversees its lucrative Office suite of applications.
