When the iPlayer first launched the BBC was criticised for producing versions that only worked with Microsoft's Windows XP and which used Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) system to enforce viewing restrictions.
To prevent an attacker from exploiting Microsoft in the same way again, tomorrow's patch includes a change to Microsoft's Windows Update service.
Both draw inspiration from their makers' mobile operating systems, Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone.
That's consistent with how it runs its phone business, building smartphones that use either Google's Android or Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.
Other cable companies like Cablevision and Time Warner have also inked deals with Sun for using Java OS. Sun's rivals include Microsoft's Windows CE, OpenTV, and Power TV from Scientific Atlanta.
Nokia's flagship mobile running Microsoft's Windows Phone, the Lumia 900, has recently appeared in America to decent critical acclaim.
It won't be easy: BlackBerry's App World, Palm's App Catalog, Microsoft's Windows Mobile Catalog and Google's Android Market have only a fraction of Apple's offerings.
The question that remains is whether or not this proposed NDS integration will be as complete as Cisco's ongoing work to incorporate Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server-based Active Directory into its hardware management software.
Initially the system will allow file-sharing with Sony's PSP games console, Nokia's N-series mobile, Sony Ericsson's Walkman and Cybershot handsets and Microsoft's Windows Mobile smartphones.
They also must be able to run over a number of different operating systems, such as Qualcomm 's Brew, Sun Microsystems' Java and Microsoft 's Windows Mobile.
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.
Ballmer and Windows senior product manager Ryan Asdourian touted the success of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, which has won favorable reviews since it was released last year.
Last year Nokia's Stephen Elop flung his company off what he described as a burning platform, putting the Finnish giant's Symbian operating system out to grass to get into bed with Microsoft's Windows Phone.
However, some reports suggest that a month prior to the launch of Windows 8 there are only about 2, 000 apps available for it in Microsoft's Windows Store.
Of course, it's adding up to be a long day for us no matter what, since Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 launch event is scheduled for just a few hours later on the West Coast and our own reader meetup is in NYC later that night.
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It's a mainstay now, but back at the start of this past CES, Microsoft's Windows 8 platform was still far from release.
Tellme's Paczuski confirmed that his group is working on similar applications for the iPhone and smart phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile software.
Some had tipped Tami Reller, head of finance at Microsoft's Windows division, to replace Mr Klein.
Instead, the companies would tighten their relationship regarding use of Microsoft's Windows software, the person said.
As a result, Nokia ended up dropping the Symbian platform in favor of Microsoft's Windows-based devices.
TruServ, a retailing cooperative that includes True Value Hardware, had 2, 800 PCs running Microsoft's Windows 98.
My problem was that I had too much confidence in Microsoft's Windows 8 installer software.
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Nokia has licensed some of Microsoft's Windows applications, such as Office, on its smartphones, for example.
PCs would be as brave (or foolhardy) as licensing an alternative operating system to Microsoft's Windows.
Steven Sinofsky, the head of Microsoft's Windows division, has left the company with immediate effect.
The dominance of Microsoft's Windows operating system means it is the preferred target of hackers.
In August he began shipping a version of Teradata to run on Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.
The company is also making phones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile software and its own Bada operating system.
Microsoft's Windows 8 is due just three months later, on October 26.
The kids over at Tech Arp got their hands on a draft of Microsoft's Windows 7 upgrade scheme.
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