Microsoft leveraged its monopolistic power in operating systems (Windows) into success in applications (Office).
Other under-the-cover changes include giving browsers the sort of sophisticated software-control features usually found only in operating systems.
If you want competition in operating systems, why not do the simple thing and break up the Windows company?
In the space of a given year, untold thousands of vulnerabilities are found in operating systems, applications and plug-ins.
Google has proven to be a formidable force in operating systems, not only with Android, but also with its Chromebook hardware.
Just as Microsoft used its dominance in operating systems to get its browser onto millions of computers, it now can rely on that browser to offer Web software.
Amidst all the cacaphony of voices calling for some form of government regulation or rules to control Microsoft's growing dominance in operating systems and Internet browsers, one option was completely overlooked.
The criticism is not just that he is successful but that he has tried to leverage, unfairly and perhaps illegally, Microsoft's near monopoly in desktop operating systems in ways that would let him dominate everything from word processing and spreadsheets to Web browsers and content.
It must deliver the vision he set out in the now infamous "burning platform" memo in February 2011, when he abandoned Nokia's in-house operating systems in favour of Microsoft's Windows Phone.
Microsoft has buried legions of other innovative firms by adding or improving features in its operating systems.
Google has now become the market share leader in mobile operating systems, powering more mobile devices than any other company.
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With the Asha platform, it's also making a fresh push in smartphone operating systems, a market dominated by Apple's iOS and Google Inc.
In fact, I believe boosting market share significantly for Hyper-V is an imperative for Microsoft to continue to remain relevant in virtualized operating systems.
Microsoft scored a big coup in February, when it announced that Nokia, a longtime foe in mobile operating systems, would begin incorporating Microsoft's e-mail push technology into its phones.
Apple and Google, the latter riding on a Samsung partnership, continue to play an escalating game of units versus revenues to determine which is the top dog in mobile operating systems.
Today only two lawsuits remain of the ten filed soon after federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared in 2000 that Microsoft had abused its monopolies in software operating systems and desktop applications.
Microsoft's commitment to PC technology has kept it investing in operating system and office automation software for the last decade while losing more than two-thirds of its market share in smartphone operating systems and delaying its entry into the fast-growing tablet business--places where Apple has had astoundingly profitable revenue growth.
The Canadian company still holds about 50% (in terms of operating systems) of the enterprise market, said Alves in an interview.
In terms of mobile operating systems, for instance, growth and innovation in the whole sector would benefit from more viable products (ideally four).
The reason mobile devices have been immune is arguably because in many ways the opportunities to capitalize on weaknesses and flaws in the relatively young operating systems of these new products have been scarce in comparison to the millions of machines running, for example, Windows.
If network effects did in fact assure monopoly power, the Microsoft monopoly in the operating-systems market would not have been illegal.
In his written testimony, Mr Schmalensee is at pains to insist that the Justice Department's case against Microsoft does not turn on the question whether the firm is a monopoly in the operating-systems market.
When pushed to admit what he uses as default, it's still the iPhone -- two of them in fact -- but Woz's ability to see the best in all mobile operating systems will be sure to further confirm his status as one of tech's most liked.
In addition, open source operating systems, applications and third-party tools are already in development.
In addition, a few companies (RIM, HP) are working with new operating systems acquired in the past year and are under pressure to show they made the right bets.
The risk to Microsoft lies in seeing its enterprise franchise undermined by mobile, as other operating systems are dominant in this one sphere where people and companies are buying more.
Apple ( AAPL) and Google ( GOOG) have the dominant operating systems in the smartphone business.
He repeatedly referred to Linux as one choice among many operating systems in the server space.
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