Sentence examples for selling operating system from inspiring English sources

The company is pulled in two directions: toward selling operating system software for PC's and toward following consumers as they move away from the PC into new areas like television-based Web surfing.

Microsoft moved more than 100 million copies in six months, making it the company's fastest selling operating system ever.

Windows 7 is by far the "fastest selling operating system in history," according to Microsoft.

Windows Vista is on track to be the fastest selling operating system in Microsoft's history, also thanks to our strong partner ecosystem.

As Microsoft points out, that makes it the fastest selling operating system in history, which is not super surprising when you consider how many were clamoring to upgrade from Vista, and XP for that matter.

We are still selling operating systems.

With the advent of open-source software, in particular Linux, selling operating systems had already become less profitable.

I was reminded of Neal Stephenson's visionary essay on the business of selling operating systems In the Beginning Was the Command Line.

In order for Microsoft to make money out of selling operating systems, they not only have to sell you an operating system but also later persuade you that the version you already own is wrong, unsuitable and decrepit, and must be replaced.

If you're not technically minded it's tough going in places, but he sprinkles amusing disquisitions on all sorts of subjects (Disneyland and the MGB sports car to name but two) in amongst the critique of Apple, Microsoft, Debian et al. Initially it was Stephenson's argument that the business of selling operating systems is doomed, which resonated with me.

Microsoft is a company that has built one of the world's most valuable franchises on selling operating systems that cloak a CPU, and selling white-collar productivity software that sits on every desktop.