Sentence examples for software franchises from inspiring English sources

The company continues to rely on its Windows, Office and business software franchises for the bulk of its $62.5 billion in annual revenue.

Had it bought Sun, I.B.M. would have become the dominant supplier of high-priced Unix servers and gained the rights to a number of popular business software franchises, including the Java technology used on many Web sites.

While Microsoft continues to reap profits from products like Windows and Office, growth is shifting away from the personal computer industry on which those two software franchises rest toward mobile devices like tablets and smartphones.

Microsoft, with its Windows and Office software franchises, has dominated the relationship most people had with their computers for almost two decades, and that was reflected in its stock market capitalization.

For the foreseeable future, gaming, mobile phones and TV will be of marginal import for Microsoft's finances.That said, last month Microsoft announced "Windows Live" and "Office Live", which will be online-services versions of its two big software franchises.

That case, and the company's desire to protect its fabulously lucrative Windows and Office software franchises, led to a decade of still-high profits but an increasing sense in the tech community that its best days were behind – or even that it might, sooner than later, become roadkill under the wheels of more nimble innovators.

How far Google can eat into Microsoft's software franchise is uncertain.

But the long-term problem for Microsoft is that more than 80 percent of its operating profit still comes from its PC software franchise.

The company's claim to fame, if you can call it that, is owning the largest business software franchise no one has ever heard of.

Microsoft has been forced to radically reimagine Windows, its flagship software franchise, for a future in which much Web browsing, movie watching, book reading and other activities occur on tablets.

Give 'em credit for trying, but Microsoft's offense against Yahoo! is a long-run, defensive move to protect its desktop software franchise.