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The Battle for Mobile Operating System Supremacy

The Investing Edge

Jobs’s strategy had dire consequences; by 1988 Microsoft had become the world’s leading software provider primarily because it stayed out of the hardware business and licensed MS-DOS to a wide range of vendors, including IBM, Dell, Compaq, etc. It’s the Mobility Battle, Stupid. Android’s development was starkly different than iOS.

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MicroSoft: Still dominating in enterprise office automation

CTOvision

Here is how Microsoft describes themselves: Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company operates in five segments: Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing, D&C Hardware, D&C Other, Commercial Licensing, and Commercial Other.

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Google: Innovating in AI but can they catch up with cloud leaders?

CTOvision

From an enterprise IT standpoint, their championing of the Android operating system has earned them a place in the mobility domain, and their Google Apps offering helped show many businesses that the cloud can work for office automation. They have a market cap of over $544B and deserve the honor of being in this category.

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All You Need to Know About VMI for Mobile Apps

Galido

VMI stands for Virtual Mobile Infrastructure and basically, it provides end users with a highly effective and an efficient way to have access to delicate mobile applications and information without much hassle. It creates virtual versions of mobile applications and sends them to a vast collection of devices.

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BlackBerry will die on January 4th — for real this time

The Verge

Dear friends, we’re gathered here today to mourn the death of that once-beloved monarch of the mobile world: BlackBerry. or earlier, BlackBerry 10, or its tablet operating system BlackBerry PlayBook — will “no longer reliably function,” says the company. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

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How to Select the Best eBook Publishing Platform

Kitaboo

Compatibility with Multiple Devices, Operating Systems and Browsers. Since there are different operating systems available and also web browsers that are either specific to each OS or accessible across all systems, the content you publish must be accessible on most if not all operating systems and browsers.

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