This is good news for Microsoft since Nokia Lumia phones are based on its Windows operating system.
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Interestingly, Microsoft (MSFT) stock has not seen strong money inflows along with Nokia even though Nokia Lumia phones are based on Microsoft Windows Phone operating system.
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LUmia is also based on the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system which is just coming to market.
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Both phones are based on the new Microsoft Windows 8 operating system software.
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Though Surface is clearly a tablet device, Sinofsky pointed out that the process of developing Windows 8 (on which Surface's Windows RT operating system is based) started in the summer of 2009, when there was no Apple iPad as a reference point (though it remains unclear if Microsoft began working on its tablet at that time).
The company has filled the new tablet with a Windows 8 operating system and hardware based on suggestions from fans and consumers.
The XPS 18 is based on third-generation Intel Core processors and Windows 8 operating system for no-compromise performance, whether docked or on the go.
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The company is also making phones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile software and its own Bada 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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Windows Me will be Microsoft's last operating system based on its 20-year-old DOS programming technology.
Though most of its user interface is totally new, the Kin runs an operating system based on many of the same components that underpin Windows Phone 7 and the Zune HD.
In January of 2011, however, Microsoft announced last year that it is working with Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments to put a version of its Windows operating system on computers powered by the ARM-based processors now used in mobile phones and tables.
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Hewlett-Packard is said to have killed the Slate, which was to be based on Microsoft's Windows, and is now reportedly working on a tablet using an operating system from Palm, the smart-phone maker that HP recently bought.
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The first product based on the design, the SH7729, was also unveiled Thursday and will support Microsoft's Windows CE operating system, Hitachi said.
At Apple's annual Macworld event on January 10th, Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive, unveiled what many fans had been expecting: the first Macintosh computers based on chips made by Intel, which also power the vast majority of personal computers that run Microsoft's Windows operating system.
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