It has 95% market share in the productivity software market, 75% share in the operating system market and approximately 75% share in the server software market.
Its market share in the smartphone operating system market has dropped from around 9% in 2009 to 4% in 2010.
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Microsoft needs to gain market share in the virtualize operating system space.
The reception to Windows 8 has been nothing short of dismal, even though Microsoft owns 90% market share in the PC operating system space.
Estimates of operating system market share, including both servers and desktops, put Linux at 1 percent or so.
For the year, that marked a gain in share for Google's operating system, but a decline for Apple's - although in terms of units sold, both firms made gains.
Developers will be free to build and sell mobile applications for the operating system without having to share revenue with Apple or Google.
"The Android operating system holds the largest share of smartphone unit shipments in Canada and in North America today, " said Krista Napier, Senior Analyst for Mobility at IDC Canada.
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From a value perspective, Google is very appealing right now given its success in monetizing search and YouTube, as well as its fast-growing market share in the smart phone space with its Android operating system.
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The court hearing stems from an anti-trust suit the US Government filed last October, accusing Microsoft of using its dominance with the Windows 95 operating system to gain an unfair market share for its Internet browser, Internet Explorer, over its competitor Netscape Communications Corp.
Anyone can look at operating system source code, modify it and share it with the world.
Through the Nokia partnership, Microsoft not only stands to gain licensing revenues for its operating system, but also search advertising market share.
Nokia announced its partnership with Microsoft last year after seeing its Symbian operating system lose customer appeal and its market share decline.
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Developers have contacted The Next Web to share references to a new iPhone identifier and the next big operating system update for the smartphone and tablet devices: iOS 7.
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Thinking about cars as a platform raises the prospect that someone could produce a sort of operating system for that platform and capture a huge share of the value, as Apple did with its iPod and iPhone and as Microsoft did with personal computers.
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Apple's iPhone and devices powered by Google's Android operating system have crept up on BlackBerry's market share.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or IE, has an 85% global share and comes loaded on every PC with Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Despite numerous and repeated efforts of manufacturers (Nokia, but also Samsung and HTC) and operators to develop an alternative to Android and Apple based on Windows, and despite the launch of numerous phones based on Windows with strong features, reviews and marketing support, the operating system remains cornered to less than 5% market share in smartphones.
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The Linux operating system that Red Hat's business is built around is free to share and distribute.
The Mac uses only plug-in memory modules, its operating system automatically recognizes all the memory present, and all Mac software can share it.
News Radar consistently shows Google and its Android operating system in or near the center of the radar screen as it gains market share.
Microsoft is hardly abandoning its PC operating system business, but Windows has experienced a three-year trend of declining share in the mix of Microsoft's revenues.
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Microsoft is a company that has attracted more than its fair share of criticism over the years for its aggressive competitive practices, the dubious quality of its Windows operating system and Office applications, as well as its seeming inability to produce sizable growth in recent years.
"It is a bit ironic, but the fact that Apple currently has such a small market share versus Microsoft 's Windows means that there are far fewer hackers writing virus code for the Macintosh operating system, " says Pile, who notes the premium IT managers place on system reliability.
Fixated upon putting out an updated operating system for personal computers (Vista then later Windows 7) it let its 45% market share in smart phones circa 2007 disappear.
If people want to privately share photos they can also email or send them via MMS. The service currently is only available with Android phones operating system 2 or higher with a 1gHz processor.
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