Company Insight

Microsoft: the New Evil Empire or Just a Resurgent Old Adversary?

Author: Stuart Carlaw, Chief Research Officer

Published: 18 May 2011

Many years ago in a galaxy far, far away, Symbian was created to ostensibly stop the encroachment of Microsoft into the mobile domain. Carriers, vendors, and OEMs all saw what happened in the PC domain and didn’t want a third party software provider to dictate the shape of the industry.

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