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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.

  • MS Windows XP support ended in 2014.
  • MS Vista has been phased out; it has minimal market share.
  • MS Windows 7 deployments have a substantial share of the desktop market, but they are being phased out as part of a migration to Windows 10.
  • There are three versions of MS Windows 8, 8.1, Pro, and RT; there no longer is a free upgrade to Windows 10.
  • MS Windows 10 and the MS Edge web browser are strategic components of a phase out and transition to meet competition in desktop and mobile devices in global markets.
  • MS SharePoint increasingly will have to accomodate the Apple and Android and other third party and OSS mobile devices.
  • Microsoft has been expending resources to develop the Windows operating system for MS Phone and tablet for integration with its SharePoint software stack infrastructure.
  • There has been an increased interest and experimentation with Linux as a desktop operating system; however, this has not yet translated into significant market share.

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.

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