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There currently is a combination of MS Windows desktop and server operating systems in use. However, Microsoft Corporation has publicly committed its intention to standardize on MS Windows 10 version. Starting in 2015, a free upgrade has been available from MS Windows 8 with incentives for licensed clients with earlier versions of the MS Windows family of operating systems.
Although Microsoft Windows operating systems still are widely used, the trend increasingly is towards mixed co-existance and integration with Android and Apple platform mobile device operating system platforms. The MS Windows 10 operating system also is integral to the standardization and integration of its MS Phone and tablet - Surface platform. The MS SharePoint Server stack platform is central to the Microsoft platform strategy - networking, scripting, and application development. In infrastructure and back office operations, the assumption is that commodity hardware will be important in determining the distribution of server market share: proprietary MS Windows servers, open source Linux-variants, and commercial UNIX-driven processors. A significant trend is the increased scale-out to Wintel server hardware from proprietary scale-up servers. In addition to their proprietary hardware and UNIX operating systems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard provide financing and technical support to the Linux foundation as part of increasing their utilization of Linux kernel. In response to this competition, Microsoft has become more accomodating to open source software. |
Microsoft Software | Linux-variants | UNIX-variants | ||||||
Microsoft Windows and Server Internetworking Software |
Leading Hardware Companies | Leading Software Companies and Projects | ||||||
MS Windows XP MS Windows Vista |
MS Windows 7 | MS Phone | Dell | Hewlett-Packard | Motorola | Apple - OSX | FreeBSD | Hewlett-Packard - UNIX |
MS Windows 8 / Pro | Windows RT | Windows 10 | Nokia | Samsung | Toshiba | IBM - AIX and z/OS | OpenBSD | Oracle - Solaris |
MS Windows 2008 Server MS Windows 2012 Server |
MS Windows Server 2016 MS Windows Server 2019 |
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MS Internet Information Server | Desktop | Networking | Web Servers | |
MS SharePoint | MS PowerShell | Middleware | Database | Application Development |
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Apple - Mac Operating System to iPad Emulation | Google Android Operating System | Google Chrome Operating System | MS SharePoint Server | MS Windows 7 Operating System | MS Windows 8 - 10 Operating System | MS Windows Azure |
MS Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 | Red Hat and Fedora Linux | SUSE Linux | SUSE WebYaST | Ubuntu Linux | UNIX Administration | UNIX Programming |
Microsoft Database and Development Platforms |
Popular Implementations - Linux-variants |
Mobile Computing - Linux-variants |
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MS SQL Server 2005/2008 | MS SQL Server 2012/2016 | Red Hat - Linux | Novell SUSE - Linux | Android - Linux | Chrome - Linux |
Microsoft.NET | MS Windows Phone and Tablets / UWP | Ubuntu - Linux | Other Linux Implementations | Web Apps for IPhone, IPad, and Netbook |
Scripting with WIMP | Scripting with LAMP | OSS Scripting and Programming Languages | |||
MS Windows Server | MS Internet Information Server | Linux | Apache | Active Server Pages | AJAX |
MS SharePoint | MS SQL Server | MySQL | PHP | awk | C++ Language |
MS PowerShell | C Language | CGI | |||
HTML5 | JavaScript | ||||
Scripting with WAMP | JavaServer Pages | Perl | |||
MS Windows Server | Apache | PHP | Python | ||
MySQL | PHP | Ruby |
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