The software disk also includes disaster recovery software, but only for the PC platform and not the Mac.
Microsoft, Lenovo, Google, and all the other hardware and software brands that rely on the PC platform are in a world of confusion and uncertainty.
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Mr Pearson added that a "happy side benefit" of the service would be to help curb piracy - a huge and growing issue in gaming, particularly on the PC platform.
Meanwhile, a handful of add-on products for Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Pocket PC platform have over the past year or so shown that the platform can handle mapping easily.
Because different companies use different operating systems, Symbol makes products based on the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people) OS, Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) Pocket PC platform, Windows CE and DOS. What these products have in common is their durability.
Google does not aspire to be just another platform like other platform players are, like: Microsoft on its PC software platform, Apple on its device platforms, Amazon on its retail platform, or Facebook on its social platform.
Desktop PC application platform Pokki announced that it is launching social games from Google Ventures-backed Kabam on its platform.
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Duel of Champions is cross-platform on PC and iOS (coming soon) through the Ubisoft Uplay account system.
Microsoft's FreeStyle platform lets PC-makers ship a computer with a TV tuner, TV-recording software and a remote control.
Steam has an enormous library of games, and is the best platform for purchasing and downloading them across any platform, PC or console.
Nearly all were multi-platform across PC, Xbox and PS3, but none but MW3 were released for the Wii, and no one is going to argue that version was superior to the others.
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Excluding online or browser based gaming, the console market in the Middle East is by far the more dominant gaming platform with PC game sales representing less than 15% of overall sales.
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That can make a desktop PC monitor an easy platform for keeping up with the cable TV news channels all day--or the baseball game you're missing because you're rushing to make a deadline.
According to Venture Beat, EA has employed 1500 engineers over eighteen month to create a single ID system, Single Identity, which will unify all their games across every platform: PC, Xbox, PS3, even iOS and Facebook.
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When we asked him about Windows Phone 7 scaling up into the larger-screened devices or even a tablet version of Windows 7, he was quite firm in saying that the current PC offering is the platform of choice.
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He thinks they can create a big enough platform given the PC and printer markets to attract developers.
In April, the company formed an alliance with Yahoo Japan to launch a PC-based social game platform called Yahoo Mobage.
More big moves: in April, the company formed an alliance with Yahoo Japan to launch a PC-based social game platform called Yahoo Mobage.
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The company also announced today they are working on five new game prototypes that center around the PC as the main gaming platform.
The PC product on a different platform did not always translate.
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So, I would assume at a certain point in the future that the living room is going to be the more important platform than the PC.
That resulted in a horrendous 39 Metacritic score on PC (the most powerful platform) and a 43 and 46 rating on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, respectively.
While Steam seeks to allow cross platform compatibility via PC and Mac games, and in some instances PS3 consoles, Gaikai was attempting to attract a wider audience.
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Its long-rumored Steam Box is genuinely in production right now, and fans of the company are hoping that it can strike a blow for PC gamers everywhere by bringing the platform to living room televisions.
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This gives developers unprecedented support for porting PC and Xbox games to a mobile platform, and vice versa.
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When you have a mainstream PC manufacturer and the leading digital distribution platform for video games both championing Linux, open-source proponents are bound to start cheering.
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Microsoft reigned for years as the wealthiest technology company primarily by dint of its ownership and cultivation of Windows the universal platform for applications on the PC.
Meanwhile, the sheer quantity of high-quality indie games available for PC, and the many modding communities that bulwark and extend the lives of those games, makes PC gaming the most diverse and interesting platform available.
But that will change with the Internet's next phase, when the main platform will switch from the PC to the Internet itself, and in which hosted services will emerge and the economy will move online, he said.
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Back when Microsoft released Windows Vista, the dominant platform for Windows was the desktop PC.
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