And nothing can be allowed to harm the Windows franchise, sacred cow that it is.
Commitment to the company's existing technology, product line, distribution system or customer base becomes a sacred cow.
" To one of the President's advisers it is "the most sacred cow we have around here.
But alas, in politics fairness is constrained by another religion, the sacred cow.
"Part of the talent of this writing room is that they're not afraid to kill the sacred cow, " admits the actor.
The defence minister, Ehud Barak, who leads the Labour party, refuses to hear of cutting the military budget, an Israeli sacred cow.
The government has proposed to slaughter a sacred cow of industrial relations a law permitting courts to order the rehiring, with compensation, of sacked workers.
"A sacred cow is going to get slaughtered, it's just a question of which one, " says one senior Whitehall source about the coming welfare cuts.
There is not much prospect of changing this political sacred cow.
Republicans are the first to sacrifice a sacred cow.
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Adobe is killing its own sacred cow.
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Beloved as a beautiful painting that is mysterious, intriguing and compelling, Leonardo da Vinci's classic Mona Lisa was hated by some Dadaists because it had become a sacred cow no longer appreciated as a painting, but instead, commodified on postcards, posters and coffee mugs.
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The new law is a success for Carla del Ponte, Switzerland's federal prosecutor, who rails against the banks' sacred-cow status.
Suffice it to say, in his satires and parodies, no cow is sacred, no genre is safe.
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"Krishna protected cows as sacred animals and we are delighted to celebrate the cow at this year's festival, " said President of the Temple, Srutidharma Das.
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