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Adv Cost/Managerial Accounting Week 6 Topic 1 Review Shayonna 1 page

Date Posted: February 18th, 2020
Deadline: February 19th, 2020 at at 01:01:AM
Job Budget: 2

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Over the next couple of years, I can see Microsoft continuing to grow substantially. Xbox is a popular gaming system that children and even adults enjoy playing. I believe that over five plus hours a day is spent playing video games on live. While many gaming consoles exist, Microsoft's Xbox 360 is the most popular among American consumers, selling over thirty-nine million consoles, six million more than their top competitor the PS3 (Podhradsky, D'Ovidio, & Casey, 2011). The Xbox 360, for example, allows users to access social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter, stream Internet radio through Last.fm, and watch movies via Netflix (Podhradsky, D'Ovidio, & Casey, 2011). The gaming industry will continue to grow so Microsoft will have to keep up with its competitiors such as Sony PlayStation. 

     In the next 3 years Microsoft will develop a bigger and better system with futures such as a fast processing system, more storage, and slimmer looks. Having realized the importance of supply chain visualization, companies across different industries have quickly adopted supply chain initiatives to share information among partners (Xu & Doug, 2004). For example, Microsoft inventory profiles are shared, but the different demand-supply sets are balanced to output a supply plan that fulfills the listed goals such as a better processing system. The U.S. antitrust investigations have not explicitly or implicitly constrained Microsoft’s acquisition activity. For example, in 1999 alone, Microsoft bought controlling interests in 15 companies (Akhigbe & Martin, 2002). A recent news release is Microsoft and Genesys decides to expand their partnership they believe that the expansion will help their enterprises seize the cloud for better customer experiences. Customer experiences will include a goal to have a well-qualified product that is fast. Better customer experiences will attract more customers which would eventually increase their revenue.

 

References

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Podhradsky, A. L., D'Ovidio, R., & Casey, C. (2011). A PRACTITIONERS GUIDE TO THE 

     FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF XBOX 360 GAMING CONSOLES.Proceedings of the 

     Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law, , 173-190. Retrieved from 

     https://search.proquest.com/docview/884340801?accountid=35796

Xu, K., & Dong, Y. (2004). INFORMATION GAMING IN DEMAND COLLABORATION 

     AND SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE. Journal of Business Logistics, 25(1), 121-144. 

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