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Microsoft is an American corporation with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It has dominated the personal computer operating system market since the 1980s. Its best known products today are its Microsoft Windows suite of operating systems, its Microsoft Office suite of products and Internet Explorer. It also produces hardware such as the Xbox game console, tablets and mobile phones (following its acquisition of Nokia).
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Today, the Android operating system is the dominant operating system if all computer platforms such as tablets and mobile phones are considered.
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Jscript is Microsoft’s name for JavaScript which was developed by Netscape.
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A browser is a software package with a graphical user interface that allows a user to view the World Wide Web.
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Netscape was founded by Jim Clark and Mark Andreesen in 1994. Jim Barksdale became the president and CEO of Netscape in 1995.
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O’Regan, G. (2015). Microsoft. In: Pillars of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21464-1_22
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