Microsoft surprised analysts and investors on October 24 when it posted a 17 percent increase in profits over the past three months. The profits come at a time of transition for the tech giant which recently reorganized itself as a “devices and services” company with two groups; one focusing on devices and consumer products and the other on commercial products.
Microsoft in Transition Photogallery
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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com (L) meets with Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect, at a New York news conference to launch Microsoft's new software, Office XP, May 31, 2001.
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A plainclothes policewoman searches female passengers, travelling to Nairobi, for weapons in the town of Mandera at Kenya-Somalia border.
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Jeff Raikes, group vice president of the Productivity and Business Systems Group at Microsoft (L) jokes with Actor Rob Lowe, as he describes his experiences using a Tablet PC at the product launch event in New York City, Nov. 7, 2002.
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Policija ispred američke ambasade u Londonu uoči objavljivanja izveštaja o antiterorističkoj taktici CIA, pripremljenog od strane senatskog odbora za obaveštajne delatnosti. U američkim diplomatskim predstavništvima i vojnim bazama u inostranstvu uvedene su pojačane mere bezbednosti pred objavljivanje izveštaja o mučenju kao metodu ispitivanja od strane CIA posle terorističkih napada 11. septembra 2001. decembar, 2014.