Canonical, Microsoft, and Apple Want OS Convergence – Who Will Get There First?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 3, 2014

The idea of OS convergence is starting to take a hold in the world and major companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Canonical are working hard to achieve it. There seems to be a race going on and all the players want to reach the finish as soon as possible. All the companies mentioned above have software products that run across a number of devices, but they all face the same problem. The developers are forced to make different products for each of those platforms, even though they try to achieve the same thing at the base level.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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