Sentence examples for proprietary operating system from inspiring English sources

Sun's main products run a proprietary operating system, Solaris.

Executives of Sun Microsystems told customers this week that it would do what once would have been unthinkable: turn its proprietary operating system, Solaris, into open-source software.

Sega says it has sold more than 1.5 million Dreamcast systems so far, but software developers prefer Sega's own proprietary operating system.

It also is up against newcomers like CacheFlow, which sells caching appliances -- simple servers preloaded with a proprietary operating system and caching software.

The company's decision to abandon Symbian, its proprietary operating system, caused some Nokia customers to balk at purchasing the soon-to-be obsolete models.

In the PC era hardware became a commodity and Microsoft established a lucrative monopoly centred on its proprietary operating system, Windows.

That contrasts with proprietary operating systems, like Windows NT, whose underlying code Microsoft does not publicize.

Handset manufacturers from LG and Samsung to Sony Ericsson have their own proprietary operating systems, as do RIM, maker of the BlackBerry, Palm and Apple.

Proprietary operating systems like Palm OS and Windows CE account for an average of $10 of a hand-held device's cost.

I.B.M. has been a major backer of Linux, helping to raise it as a competitor to Microsoft's Windows and other proprietary operating systems.

True coverts strip proprietary operating systems from their devices (a compromised one can access all your files).It is trickier to elude systems that record whether communications have taken place.