Sentence examples for proprietary windows from inspiring English sources

This clash is often depicted as an epic struggle for supremacy between Linux and Microsoft's proprietary Windows operating system.

Microsoft, the software giant he co-founded in 1975 with his schoolmate Bill Gates, enjoyed years of dominance with its proprietary Windows operating systems.

This certainly suits the rest of the fundamentalist camp, above all Microsoft, whose proprietary Windows operating system is Linux's most bitter rival.

In the PC domain, Microsoft offers its proprietary Windows systems, Apple has supplied Mac OS for its line of Macintosh computers, and there are few other choices.

Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, still makes at least half of its revenue from its proprietary Windows operating system for computers and servers and from its Office desktop application suite, according to its most recent financial report.

Both proprietary Windows and open-source Linux have made strong gains in corporate data centers, not so much against each other, but by supplanting costly machines that run commercial versions of the Unix operating system and sometimes, mainframe computers.

Because the technology is proprietary, only Windows users will get the benefit of all this power.

For example, although cnvPartition detects CNVs by processing the similar raw data as PennCNV (i.e. LRR and BAF), it is based on a different proprietary sliding window algorithm.

Open-source software, which developers are free to modify and redistribute, is seen as the antithesis of proprietary software like Windows.

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

According to Smaato, Symbian still reigns supreme in its global OS click-through rate index, outshining feature phones (non-smartphones with a proprietary operating system), Windows Phones and Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices, in that order.