Sentence examples for software market with from inspiring English sources

Musicmatch is a leader in the music software market, with 55 million registered users.

Microsoft is just one of several companies in this software market, with competitors offering versions of Linux, and software from Wind River, Palm and others.

This year, Microsoft has entered the tax preparation software market with the release of TaxSaver Federal Deluxe on CD-ROM, which sells for $44.95 (before a $20 rebate).

Still, Microsoft has grown rapidly in the corporate software market, with revenue reaching more than $11 billion last year, though that business is far less profitable than Windows or Office.

And in the past, new console generations have often led to disruptions in the software market, with previously healthy genres falling out of favour as gamers seek new experiences to test new architectures.

The commission opened a legal action against Microsoft last August because it said it believed that the software maker abused its dominant position in the operating systems software market with earlier versions of its Windows software to leverage control of the server software market.

The judge also ruled that Microsoft violated antitrust laws by proposing to carve up software markets with competitors and by using its market power to steer the biggest Internet providers away from Netscape.

It bought a number of companies that make software for helping manage data centers, but it is less involved in the traditional business software markets with products that track data, inventory, employees and sales leads.

[Page C2.] 2 Big Deals in Business-to-Business The consolidation of the business-to-business software market accelerated with two big deals.

Estimates of the size of this slice of the software market vary, with the International Data Corporation placing last year's revenues at $2.2 billion and Giga at $1.6 billion.

Microsoft's revenue is slowing from a software market mature with the company's Windows and Office products, so the time is now right to make a strategic push into the steadily growing Internet-advertising market, expected to reach $26 billion in 2009, according to Forrester Research.