Alicia Leifken's List: IT - 100 10-27-08

• Windows Vista operating system appears stalled
• Moreover, the company has significantly delayed its next generation of mobile smartphone software at a time that competitors like Apple and Research in Motion are making inroads into the market of software for mobile devices used in businesses.
• Declaring a third era of operating systems, Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is hoping that it will be able to repeat the success it had with its DOS and Windows operating systems of the 1980s and 1990s in a new computing world populated not by a single style of desktop computer, but instead by dozens of different kinds of Internet connected appliances ranging from smartphones to netbooks.

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