Sentence examples for software and computer makers from inspiring English sources

To ensure that Microsoft shares technical information with all hardware, software and computer makers that are entitled to it, Microsoft must create "a secure facility" where representatives of those companies can study it.

What it will take to compete there is a Lycoris-like focus on the user, but with greater rigor, better hardware support, more professionally designed software and computer makers willing to deliver Windows-less computers full of flawless functionality at prices that substantially undercut the Windows/Office monopoly.

The court said the company bullied smaller software rivals and computer makers.

A19 Competition for Microsoft A group of Linux software developers and computer makers plan to create a foundation to offer a unified desktop user interface and a set of productivity programs intended to compete as a free alternative to Microsoft's Office suite of applications for the personal computer.

Those states have said that central elements of the agreement -- greater disclosure of software code, nondiscrimination against rivals and computer makers, and limits on the ability of Microsoft to leverage its monopoly in the server markets -- have overly broad exceptions that would make the proposed settlement largely ineffective.

[Page C1.] But the opinion was also hailed by federal and state officials for affirming the principle that Microsoft had bullied smaller software rivals, computer makers and other large companies like the chip maker Intel, and had broken the law in ways that stifled competition.

The appeals judges upheld Judge Jackson's findings that Microsoft had bullied smaller software rivals, computer makers and other large companies like the chip maker Intel in ways that stifled competition.

"For Microsoft to really get back in the game seriously, you need a big change in management," said Joachim Kempin, who worked at Microsoft between 1983 and 2002, overseeing the sales of Windows software to computer makers for part of that time.

But in addition to the new software, computer makers including Hewlett-Packard, Casio and Compaq are announcing streamlined new hand-held machines that run the Pocket PC programs.

Twenty states suing the Microsoft Corporation for antitrust violations have dropped an allegation that the software giant gives computer makers illegal financial incentives to install its Windows Office software instead of competing business applications.

Before IBM was forced to "unbundle" its software, computer makers controlled both the program code and the hardware it ran on and could thus integrate them properly.