With its Windows operating system platform, the company succeeded Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with Windows XP and then the oft-criticized Windows Vista.

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The NetDynamics 5 application server will be available on the Solaris operating environment and Windows NT platform by theend of this month, as will the PAC for COM technology.

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The Microsoft Windows 8 operating system will bring the Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs, the basis of storage device-based encryption security as well as additional security features) to wider use for enterprise applications.

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The reference platform will support leading operating systems, such as Windows 8 and Android, with a broadband interface with carrier selection.

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"There's no doubt what we're looking at here is a platform that's similar to an operating system like Windows or OSX, " says McCrea.

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Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee who now heads the Army's Apple program, argues that the Unix core at the center of the Mac OS operating system makes it easier to lock down a Mac than a Windows platform.

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Next month will see Microsoft show the world Windows Phone 8 and the smartphone operating system they hope will confirm them as the third platform.

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After his famous "burning platform" memo, he opted to abandon the Symbian operating system, and choose Windows Phone rather than Android as the lifeboat to take Nokia to calmer waters.

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The only downside is that it is running Symbian, the platform Nokia is in the process of dumping, rather than its operating system of choice, Windows Phone.

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