In September 2004, years before the iPhone app boom, the service launched a mobile version for PDAs running on Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 and using Wi-Fi which, at the time, was a very rare commodity.
WestClinTech launched a product that could do everything Excel can, sometimes more accurately, always faster, but placed it on a server running SQL instead of on a desktop running Microsoft Office.
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In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.
In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.
When first announced Silverlight was portrayed as a rival to Flash and key to getting Microsoft software running on many different devices.
During its demonstration, Microsoft showed Windows running on Arm-designed chips made by Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Nvidia.
What Microsoft is showing: systems running on processors from Texas Instruments, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.
This has been an area where Sony have established an advantage, with the kind of content partnerships Microsoft has just announced already running on PlayStation 3.
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He and others are also running their businesses on Google Apps, a competitor to Microsoft Office that runs over the Web.
They are doing it with an operating system that Microsoft buried years ago and running it on a 486 chip so retro it is barely still in production.
He and others are also running their businesses on Google Apps, a competitor to Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Office that runs over the Web.
ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley says her best understanding of "Pink" is now that it's a Microsoft-branded phone running a custom UI on top of Windows Mobile 7, developed by what's left of the Danger team and targeted at the Sidekick market.
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Tellme's Paczuski confirmed that his group is working on similar applications for the iPhone and smart phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile software.
Mobil hired IBM to do the data processing, shutting off Microsoft databases in favor of Oracle database software running on a shared IBM Z900 mainframe.
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Slate, an on-line magazine owned by Microsoft, has therefore been running a list of the most generous Americans.
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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By becoming a major Dell backer, Microsoft could gain more influence in the design of the devices running on a radically redesigned version of Windows that was released in late October.
Nokia is expected to announce an upgrade to the user interface for Symbian in the third quarter, and also launch its first phone running on Windows Phone 7 in the fourth quarter, following a partnership announced with Microsoft earlier this year.
The line includes tablets and laptops, but with a focus on mobile, the event could include the launch of a new smartphone running Microsoft's operating system.
Today, Microsoft's browser is pre-installed on nearly every computer system running Windows.
Earlier this year, the company introduced the Treo 700w, running Microsoft 's Windows Mobile operating system, aimed at the enterprise market already hooked on Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices.
Customers will soon have the choice of running Microsoft's business programs, such as its mail-server software, Exchange, on their own computers or in the cloud.
But he batted down any suggestion that Intel's Red Hat investment was a warning to Microsoft, which wants to win corporate hearts and wallets with its NT operating system running on Intel-based server machines.
In that interview, he said Silverlight was still "core" to Microsoft but the company was looking to other technologies such as HTML to get its software running on devices people use to get at online sites and services.
But he did say that, in some cases, an NT box running Sendmail will be more secure than an NT box running Microsoft Exchange -- which he identified as probably Sendmail's largest competitor in the MTA space on NT.
The company has two advanced applications (one for enterprise security and one for PCI compliance), several other purpose built applications for tasks such as running Microsoft Exchange, Cisco Iron Port, F5, and other products, and dozens of apps on Splunkbase that come from both Splunk and from its growing community of developers.
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