U.S. Economy is performing through sales revenues, profit
margins and workforce size. Sales revenues are a positive sign of confidence
and satisfaction based on prices of all sold goods and services. Each sales
transaction is accumulated into the total of sales revenues which include cost
of goods sold, business operations and other credit and debit items in a
financial statement. Profit margin (Net Profit Margin) is a value of Net Income
divided by Revenue timed 100. Net Income is a value of Revenue subtracted to
Cost of Goods sold. If Revenue is bigger than Cost of Goods Sold, Net Income
will be relatively a big value. A workforce size is a total of hired employees
temporarily and full-time. A company can use economic metric or sales revenue
per employee to evaluate how effectively salaries and rewards are impacted on
each employee’s performance. A retailer can measure annual sales revenues based
on hired employees at a specific store to determine business management plans.
Among 50 states and cities in each state, the headquarters of a retailer can
decide different sales programs and HR management strategies to achieve sales
revenues, profit margin with a specific workforce size.
Microsoft has continued improving and developing its Window
OS versions from XP, Vista , 7 and 8 for
servers, desktop computers and laptop computers. Microsoft can choose a fixed
timeframe such as 6 months to 24 months for each new release or update version
because complexity, OS migration and software installment cost money, time,
consistency and scalability of old data and new data. During those days of
updating and migrating from an old OS version to a new OS version, a company
may encounter some delays of delivering services to customers. IT department
may implement different methods of installing a new OS system while customers
are still able to use all featured services – running parallel IT structures to
switch on a new OS system when the process is successfully done. Microsoft has
also evaluated its budget or cost of paying engineers, testers, code developers
and application developers to design or upgrade an old OS version to a new
version. The cost includes all spending budgets, time, marketing and legal
processes. A life cycle of a OS version is depended on how fast new technologies
are invested in hardware development procedures in memory drams, CPU,
motherboards, display High-Definition quality, Audio and Video formats,
internet speeds, security and simultaneous processing architectures, and
semiconductor components – lighter and electricity-efficiency performance
(longer hours on batteries and less electricity consumption per year). Game
development platforms, multimedia features and quality, business applications,
display HD quality are among driving forces to shape a new OS version in each
life cycle.
From OS versions for PC or Mac, Microsoft and other software
companies have also designed OS versions for mobile devices, Smartphone and
tablets. Google, Apple, Microsoft and others have defined their own strategies
to control market shares of Window Mobile, Android and iOS by offering new
hardware products installed new OS versions to outperform or earn high
benchmarks. Like a Fashion industry, Software and Hardware industries of
computing and telecommunication businesses have competed with shorter business
cycles, lighter weights, smaller size, and more embedded applications. Special
materials and outperforming features are used as differentiating advantages
among companies. Consumers care more about energy consumption, environmental
friendly features, affordable prices, lighter weights, pocket-size dimension,
multiple functions, and mobility of computing, personal communication and
financial transactions.
