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And the alliance piles pressure on other technology companies, from Apple’s rivals in devices and mobile operating-systems to IBM’s competitors in supplying software and services to businesses.

From Economist • Jul. 17, 2014

Whichever company gets Windows, whose monopoly of the operating-systems market is what Microsoft has been leveraging all along.

From Time Magazine Archive

One path the negotiations are likely to explore is spinning off Microsoft's operating-systems division, which makes Windows, into its own company.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the case's central tenet--that Microsoft illegally leveraged its operating-systems monopoly--still stands, whatever AOL does with Netscape.

From Time Magazine Archive