Consent decree or no, Microsoft has once again managed to leverage its operating system dominance to its advantage.
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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Microsoft's influence stems from the dominance of its Windows operating system, which runs over 90% of the world's desktop computers.
It may grumble about the dollar's dominance in the global trading system, but it has no desire to pull the rug from under America's economy.
In a preliminary report on the antitrust trial against the software giant, Jackson determined that Microsoft used the dominance of its Windows operating system as a cudgel against competitors, stifling innovation and limiting consumer choice.
This kind of platform has wide appeal and he could reach his target of 5% of the popular vote, says Nielson, who wants people to back his man in protest at the dominance of the two-party system.
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.
The dominance of Microsoft's Windows operating system means it is the preferred target of hackers.
Fareed Zakaria said in his bestselling book The Post-American World that a superpower is a country that achieves dominance in ideas or ideology, an economic system and military power.
The fight is part of a battle for dominance of India's fragmented private health care system.
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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At number three in the world, Murray is already the highest-ranked Briton since the system was introduced in 1973, but this latest move breaks up the dominance that Federer and Nadal have enjoyed.
Or to put it another way, the Treasury, Bank of England and Financial Services Authority, in reforming the banking system to stabilise it and protect taxpayers, may have inadvertently reinforced the market dominance of the UK's Big Five banks.
Some analysts believe this dominance could lead to Samsung looking at how it can assert far more control over the operating system - perhaps in a way similar to Amazon which, with its Kindle tablets, launched its own curated app store for its users to buy from instead of Google's default shop.
However, the biggest challenge to Sun's dominance may come not from the old enemy in Redmond, but from Linux, a free operating system that is a product of the open-source movement.
Competition from rival open source operating system, Linux, is stalling Microsoft's growth in the server market, but desktop dominance remains intact: Windows installed in 94% of PCs being sold.
The PDA pioneer sought to take advantage of its dominance in handhelds, and stave off rival Pocket PCs powered by Windows CE, by licensing the Palm operating system while continuing to use it.
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