About this tag
The growth tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about expansion in the tech industry, including Microsoft's developer outreach, data storage advances, Windows PC adoption in education, security company acquisitions, and platform milestones. Topics range from Microsoft's changing open-source stance and Windows 10 device growth to app store trends and forum community growth. These threads reflect how growth manifests across software, hardware, and business strategies, with a focus on Microsoft's ecosystem and IT infrastructure.
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Avast buys AVG
Avast Security have added AVG to it's portfolio paying $1.3 Billion for the privilege. Whether this means one product will be phased out is still unclear: Reference- kemical
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- acquisition antivirus avast avg ceo crowdsourced czechoslovakia desktop endpoint management growth internet iot market mobile portfolio security shareholders software technology wifi
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- Forum: Windows Security
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Look At Us Growing
Hi ! Windows forum is growing. We just reached 41,000 members today. That's a great! Nearly a 1000 sense I registered. Getting up there with the big dogs. It's a great place to learn new things and pass forward things you have learned to others. I hope we don't get to big and lose our friendly...- holdum333
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- celebration community engagement friendly growth learning members milestone support windows forum
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Microsoft Build 2016: Windows 10 Reaches 270 Million Devices and Key Stats Unveiled
Microsoft opens the latest Build conference with 3 days of reveals, news and of course tech... Reference You can watch Microsoft's Build conference here: Link Removed Conference currently live!!- kemical
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- build 2016 conference devices growth microsoft new device stats usage hours user count windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Software
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VIDEO New SkyDrive Tools
Microsoft have made some improvements to SkyDrive: Reference: Link Removed- kemical
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- access android cloud storage control features file explorer folders growth laptop management microsoft mobile apps office sharing skydrive storage sync tablet update windows
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- Forum: Windows Tutorials
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Samsung files motion to see Apple's next iPhone, iPad
Samsung has fired back at Apple with a motion that would require the company to turn over advance copies of the "final, commercial versions" of the company's unannounced next-generation iPhone and iPad by June 13, 2011. Apple and Samsung are locked in a heated dispute over whether Samsung's...- reghakr
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- apple competition court devices discovery dispute electronics growth innovation intellectual property ipad iphone legal mobile motion patent products prototype samsung technology
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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World's tallest teenager Malee Duangdee is still growing
The 19-year-old is 2.12m (6ft 10in) tall and weighs 127kg (20st) but the world record has brought her a lifetime of loneliness. Her height is down to a brain tumour that was diagnosed when she was nine. It caused a hormone imbalance and impaired her vision. 'She looked different...- cybercore
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- acceptance braintumor challenges emotional health familysupport growth health hormone lifejourneys loneliness medical personal story schoollife tallest teenager thailand tumut visionimpairment
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Android Overtakes BlackBerry As the Top U.S. Smartphone Platform
The trend was obvious Link Removed - Invalid URL, and now it finally happened: Android is the most popular smartphone platform among U.S. subscribers. According to comScore's data, Google's Android rose from 23.5% market share in October 2010 to 31.2% in January 2011, enough to securely grab...- cybercore
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- android apple blackberry canalys comscore consumer electronics data analysis growth ios market share microsoft mobile trends palm rim smartphone technology us market
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Windows 7 Western Digital to buy Hitachi disk division for $4.3B
Western Digital announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), the disk drive arm of Hitachi Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the leading supplier of hard disk drive...- cybercore
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- acquisition business ceo consumer data centers external drive growth hard drive hitachi industry internal drive investment manufacturing market share stock transaction strategy tech mergers technology western digital
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Technology growth to come to a screaming halt
Huge changes in software and microchips needed A new report from the US National Research Council has warned that technology growth will grind to a halt unless a new generation of hardware and software is developed. The catchy-titled “The Future of Computing Performance: Game over or next...- kemical
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- challenges computer science computing growth hardware hardware development industry innovation microchips moore's law parallel processing performance power consumption programming report software software development technology thermal management transistors
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- Forum: General Computing
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Internet has a population of two billion
Any room to move in here? The World Wide Wibble now has a population of nearly two billion people according to the report, from the International Telecommunication Union. The report says that we will see 2 billion Web dwellers by the end of this year a figure which means that the number of...- kemical
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- access broadband communication competitiveness content country development digital economics growth hamadoun internet itu population report speed technology telecommunications users web
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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An Answer is just an Answer
A couple months short of my first anniversary here at Windows 7 Forums and without a doubt, it has been an incredibly rewarding experience. I have had the opportunity to learn so much and I hope, to have helped a few members as well as visitors along the way. I know to some, I'm still relatively...- Trouble
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- advice anniversary civility community critique discussion ego engagement experience feedback forum growth help learning problem solving respect sincerity support user interaction windows 7
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- Forum: The Water Cooler
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Intel to Buy Security Giant McAfee - for 7.68 billion.
Intel announced a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee's common stock fo $7.68 billion, in a move unanimously supported by the board of directors of both companies. The deal, which is part of Intel's new strategy to focus on security as much as it does on energy efficiency, has still to...- Mitchell_A
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- acquisition business cloud security cybersecurity endpoint security growth hardware innovation intel investment mcafee network security security market services software stock strategy technology threats
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- Forum: General Computing
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What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?
For being the fastest growing server product at Microsoft, SharePoint is still largely misunderstood. There’s no question its one of Microsoft’s most important enterprise products, contributing more than $1 billion to the company’s coffers. Yet, as CEO Steve Ballmer himself...- reghakr
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- assessment business complexity consultant content management development enterprise growth hardware intranet maintenance microsoft network products server sharepoint software storage system integrators
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- Forum: Windows News
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Windows Vista Introduction to Microsoft and My Experience with Windows Vista
hi all .. i am new here in this site.as we know that the growth of microsoft is getting up day by day.my lap top uses the operating software of windows vista and i find it really good indeed..:D- imported_shaun
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- growth laptop microsoft new user windows vista
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support