Part of what will be required is a common underlying software layer that runs on all electronic devices.
Part of that will depend on fantastic titles, but more important is Microsoft's determination to dominate the underlying software.
If computing becomes a service delivered over the internet, it will hardly matter how the underlying software is developed.
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Much of the underlying software that runs mobile apps, as well, is open source and publicly accessible, most of it now through GitHub.
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Mr. Ballmer placed a high-profile bet on a computing philosophy that PCs, tablet computers and smartphones should share common elements, style and underlying software.
Rather, in archetypal Microsoft fashion, it is first consolidating its grip on game development through its control of the underlying software, a series of low-level programs that go under the rubric of DirectX.
There is no need to buy, configure or manage the underlying transcoding software.
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Of course, the right answer may lie in between any of these three scenarios, and it should come as no surprise that the above solutions can all work together because the underlying Microsoft software is integrated by design.
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Effectively, we are trying to recreate the entire software and underlying services stack.
It does not even technically help solve the underlying problem, as this software illustrates.
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All together, that trifecta of software tamed the underlying powerful logic engines.
Such software, the underlying recipe for which is created by volunteers and distributed free online, was initially dismissed as the plaything of nerdy hobbyists.
Before now anyone wanting to use the Kinect had to work via an official software toolkit that hid the underlying code.
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One is Java, a programming language that is the underlying technology both for many business applications and for software that runs on mobile phones.
CenterPoint's network was engineered by ibm and runs on open-source software, meaning anybody can access the underlying code to develop new products to ride on the communications system CenterPoint is building.
It's an axiom that computer or software companies have always had to evolve as fast as the underlying technology drivers.
And that same seamlessness, he said, should extend across not only public and private clouds but also hybrids and on-premise software: to everyone above the administration layer, the underlying platforms should be unknown, nondisruptive, and irrelevant.
Incompetent, antiquated software causes many of these difficulties, but there's an underlying problem.
One underlying factor is the very inventiveness of Silicon Valley, which keeps producing new software and online services that create new openings for attackers.
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