Examples of Windows Operating System Product in a sentence
Microsoft shall not condition the granting of a Windows Operating System Product license, or the terms or administration of such license, on an OEM or other licensee agreeing to license, promote, or distribute any other Microsoft software product that Microsoft distributes separately from the Windows Operating System Product in the retail channel or through Internet access providers, Internet content providers, ISVs or OEMs, whether or not for a separate or positive price.
The net royalty rate for the previous Windows Operating System Product shall be no more than the average royalty paid by the OEM for such Product prior to the release.
Microsoft shall, when it makes a major Windows Operating System Product release (such as Windows 95, OSR 2.0, OSR 2.5, Windows 98, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows "Millennium," "Whistler," "Blackcomb," and successors to these), continue for three years after said release to license on the same terms and conditions the previous Windows Operating System Product to any OEM that desires such a license.
Microsoft shall not offer, agree to provide, or provide any consideration to any actual or potential Platform Software competitor in exchange for such competitor’s agreeing to refrain or refraining in whole or in part from developing, licensing, promoting or distributing any Operating System Product or Middleware Product competitive with any Windows Operating System Product or Middleware Product.
In a similar vein § III.E requires that Microsoft license, for purposes of interoperating or communicating with a Windows Operating System Product, any communications protocol installed on a Windows client which is used to interoperate or communicate with a Microsoft server operating system product without the addition of software code to the client.
Moreover, as the government explains, the definition of API is fairly broad such that “whatever MicrosoftMiddleware uses to request services from a Windows Operating System Product, whether it includes something that could arguably be called a ‘file format’ or not, is the subject of disclosure.” United States Resp.
The final provision in § III.H., subsection 3, prohibits a Windows Operating System Product from automatically altering an OEM’s icon, shortcut, or menu-entry configuration without first seeking confirmation from the user.
The software code that comprises a Windows Operating System Product shall be determined by Microsoft in its sole discretion.
Furthermore, pursuant to§ III.H.3(b), the Windows Operating System Product may not seek confirmation from the end user for such a non-user initiated change in configuration until “14 days after the initial boot up of a new Personal Computer.” Id. § III.H.3(b).
API is defined in § III.D as “the interfaces, including any associated callback interfaces, that Microsoft Middleware running on a Windows Operating System Product uses to call upon that Windows Operating System Product in order to obtain any services from that Windows Operating System Product.” SRPFJ § III.D. Some entities filing comments complain that the definition of API is too narrow.