The antitrust concern apparently surrounds the conditions of Microsoft's Corel investment, and whether or not Microsoft bullied Corel to drop its Linux-based applications, because the Linux operating system competes with Microsoft's Windows operating system.
More importantly, Microsoft and Sun have a new common enemy: Linux, an operating system that competes with Windows and with Sun's Solaris but which, unlike the other two, is written by volunteers and shared freely among all who want to download and use it.
Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's long-range plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the so-called Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
Google today makes Android mobile software, which competes with Apple's mobile operating system.
Palm makes its own, well-received operating system, webOS, which competes directly with Android.
Microsoft competes with Google and Apple in the operating system market.
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It uses a more labour-intensive production system than the Japanese firms it competes with to take advantage of low labour costs.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is counting on new versions of its flagship Windows operating system to power a new generation of smartphones, tablets and PCs as it competes against Apple and Google.
Considering it is already in iPhones and Galaxy phones, and also competes with Google Now, might it piggyback an OEM, embedding itself more deeply in an operating system?
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