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Like it or not, the Internet has become the operating system of choice for software developers.
When the Justice Department (and later the courts) declared, in 1998, that Microsoft was guilty of monopolistic practices for bundling a free Internet Explorer with its operating system, in order to cripple a rival browser from Netscape, Mossberg wrote that a free browser better served consumers.
Aided by a couple of Internet telephone veterans, he put the telephone switch at the center of the operating system and made it possible to connect it to almost any Internet phone system (except Skype).
Microsoft was the undisputed champ, after bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system in the 1990s and destroying Netscape.
Valley folk point out that Judge Jackson thinks that a computer operating system and Internet browsing software should be separate.
In the coming months, HP hopes to roll out consumer and business devices with wireless connection to the Internet, thanks to the operating system acquired with Palm.
Its enemies fret about the fact that Windows 98 fully integrates Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser with the operating system for the first time.
To add to the menace, the new Java programming language, developed by another Microsoft enemy, Sun Microsystems, had the potential to create applications programmes that could be pulled down from servers linked to the Internet and would run on any operating system.
Google unveiled the first touch-screen laptops powered by its Chrome operating system, as the Internet giant made its latest foray into hardware development.
He figured one engineer could walk in and say Internet Explorer was bundled into the Windows operating system because it simply worked better that way, and the judge would agree.
Ericsson's Screen Phone, which runs the open-source Linux operating system, combines both Internet access and a speaker phone, and will communicate with a home base station using the emerging Bluetooth technology for wireless personal area networking.
The rise of the Internet has reduced the importance of any one operating system.
The company is working with the not-for-profit organisation to launch a new operating system based on the Firefox internet browser that Mozilla owns.
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For its part, Google's kicking in not just the operating system, but also an Internet browser designed for mobility (adapted from Apple's Webkit), a calendar, an address book, maps, e-mail and access to Google's online payments system, which can be used to buy things via phones.
In fact, Microsoft recently announced that it will implement RSS support in its next version of Internet Explorer and in Longhorn, the upcoming Windows operating system.
In fact, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) recently announced that it will implement RSS support in its next version of Internet Explorer and in Longhorn, the upcoming Windows operating system.
Thousands of computers running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system were unable to connect to the internet after installing an anti-virus update.
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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.
Deprived of income from browsers by Microsoft's policy of giving away its rival Internet Explorer and then making it inseparable from the Windows operating system, Netscape has had to create alternative revenue streams.
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.
With Android, which was developed at the same time that Apple was creating the iPhone, Mr. Rubin's mission was to create a modern operating system for smartphones that would allow powerful Internet applications and break the stranglehold of wireless carriers, which once dictated which applications could be installed on phones.
Initially seen as a way to enhance web pages, Java was soon talked of as a lingua franca for computers: small programs, called applets, written in Java would be distributed via the Internet and downloaded to run on any computer, regardless of operating system.
Today the Internet company Google is opening the doors to its new mobile phone operating system called Android.
LINUX, the free computer operating system developed by thousands of volunteers collaborating over the Internet, is still not taken very seriously in corporate circles.
Currently, Chrome follows standard industry practices to resolve Web addresses: Chrome sends a request to the underlying operating system which reaches out to another computer on the Internet known as a DNS server.
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On the department's behalf, he argued that Gates and his colleagues at Microsoft took advantage of their company's monopoly position in operating system software to disadvantage competitors, unfairly tying its Internet Explorer browser to Windows.
That court overturned a previous ruling by Jackson that barred Microsoft from requiring PC makers licensing Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system to also take the software vendor's Internet Explorer Web browser as part of the license.
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.
Homes and offices were filling up with personal computers sold by the likes of Dell or Compaq, with CPUs from Intel, running on Windows 95 and later iterations of the dominant operating system from of Microsoft, and connected to the Internet with networking equipment from Cisco Systems.
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