Local Software Makers Mobilize against Microsoft Windows

A group of local software hot heads have quietly come together to work on new software that will let customers bypass certain features of Microsoft operating system, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek investigation can now reveal.
The market for software is far bigger than that of the hardware in Nigeria and globally and that is the major drive in the move to replace Windows with local software.
If they succeed, they will achieve the same feat in Nigeria with Microsoft Windows which came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced previously.
Nigeria CommunicationsWeek gathered that the local software developers are also counting on political goodwill and support, the like extended to Zinox Technologies Limited, Omatek Plc and other local original equipment manufacturers which pushed their businesses up.
It remains to be seen how these local developers can create their own independent windowing systems without sharing the same basic elements that define the WIMP paradigm.
Nigeria CommunicationsWeek recalled that early dynamic information devices such as radar displays, where input devices where used for direct control of computer-created data, set the basis for later improvements of graphical interfaces.
Microsoft Window is also facing threat from Google already seen as a rival in the desktop operating-system market as well as Hewlett Packard.
Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces
Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft Corpoartion acknowledged that much adding that "We'll see Google more as a competitor in the desktop operating-system business than we ever have before. The seams between what's a phone operating system and a PC operating system will change, and so we have ramped the investment in the [Windows] client operating system.”
Elsewhere, Microsoft is fighting back abroad as it sued Linux-based vendor over patents.
Experts said that Microsoft's lawsuit against the Linux-based technology vendor TomTom over alleged patent violations could signal a more aggressive stance by the software giant over intellectual property issues -- or it could be just an isolated case involving a dispute with one vendor.