Google executives used the 3.5-hour keynote event today to announce new features in the Android mobile operating system and Chrome desktop operating system and browser.
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The iPlayer is rapidly becoming a way of life in the UK, and its inclusion on any mobile or desktop operating system gives said OS a badge of credibility.
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It's a compelling proposition: all the power and application compatibility of a laptop running a proper desktop operating system, all the portability and convenience of a tablet, all mixed together in one package.
One reason no one has been able to unseat Microsoft from desktop operating system dominance is that no one has offered a fundamentally different product that actually changes some of these longstanding issues.
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More than 10 years after its launch, and more than six years after the launch of its successor, Windows XP is still the number two operating system with more than a third of the desktop operating system market.
One has to appreciate the chutzpah of Donald Leka, chairman and CEO of Transmedia, maker of the Glide OS app that allows individuals to fluidly access their files no matter what mobile or desktop operating system they reside on.
Bill Gates's software firm is not only facing a host of legal challenges to the way it does business, but is also confronted by a formidable alliance of competitors who are out to end the Windows monopoly of the desktop operating system.
We'll admit: we would have preferred to just tap the home button instead of click on it, especially when we were ready to switch apps, but nonetheless, Android makes for an intuitive-enough desktop operating system, what with the home screen full of shortcuts.
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Once again, the company has fallen foul of regulators who accuse it of exploiting the monopoly of Windows, its desktop operating-system software, in order to dominate adjacent markets.
Originally developed as a desktop PC operating system, Canonical is looking to bring this Linux based OS not only to smartphones, but also to TVs and the cloud.
Running Windows is all well and good, but when you're running the RT flavor, which strips compatibility with the entire, massive and still-swelling catalog of Windows applications, you're left with a desktop-class operating system completely bereft of any desktop apps.
Freshly launched editions of Microsoft's mainstays--the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity suite--helped the Redmond, Wash.
"Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job, " McCarron said.
In response to demands from Linux geeks, the company said it will begin selling desktop PCs running the Ubuntu Linux operating system last month.
It was a faltering start, but it was also strangely symbolic of my mission -- namely, to explore what Microsoft's latest operating system can do for regular desktop folk.
Microsoft has confirmed a Start button is returning to the desktop mode's taskbar of its Windows 8 operating system.
The Microsoft people described it as a powerful hybrid operating system that could operate as a desktop and a tablet.
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More importantly for Canonical, their partners, and end-users, this establishes the Ubuntu operating system on four screens: Tablet, desktop, phone, and TV.
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Microsoft's Windows 95 has dominated the U.S. desktop market because of its compatibility: users buy the operating system that has the most software available, and third-party developers produce software for the system that has the most users.
The software giant agreed to change its freshly released Windows Vista operating system Tuesday to make it easier to use desktop search programs from competitors, bowing to a complaint by search company Google ahead of a hearing to review Microsoft's compliance with a 2002 anti-trust deal.
Running on the software giant's Windows CE operating system, a stripped-down version of its desktop software, the devices will offer a calendar, address book, memo pad, voice recorder, e-mail and limited web browsing.
For one thing, Microsoft beat up on Palm the same way it took out many of its competitors in the desktop OS space: by putting pressure on hardware vendors to use its operating system, and offering it at a price they couldn't refuse.
Google has decided to try to turn its own technology into, in effect, a new operating system, which will run on the internet rather than the desktop, so making Windows irrelevant.
The company is integrating its Internet Explorer browser and Microsoft Network content into its Windows operating system, a process that will culminate with the "Active Desktop" planned for Windows 97, due out in a few months.
The operating system is based in Modern User Interface, a unified approach to desktop, tablet and mobile.
Microsoft's influence stems from the dominance of its Windows operating system, which runs over 90% of the world's desktop computers.
True, there have been some complaints from those who see the new operating system as an uneasy mix of the new mobile world and the old desktop environment, but Microsoft seems confident that all is going to plan.
Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, which came out last fall, enables touch-screen controls so desktop and laptop computers work more like tablets.
The advantage of instant access to information regardless of device, operating system or location is a huge factor in the dominance of web apps over desktop apps.
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Microsoft fears that if applications increasingly reside on the Internet, rather than on the desktop, all that is needed to gain access to them is a browser and a basic operating system.
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