Mr. Thompson and his team - a hardware business within a software powerhouse - are the poor relations of the Microsoft product family.

Microsoft rivals cheered the December ruling, but it was seen mainly as a moral victory with little impact on the fortunes of the software powerhouse.

The company had become a software powerhouse.

The 40-year-old senior staff lawyer in the Justice Department's San Francisco office led the agency's investigation of the software powerhouse.

In its antitrust suit against the Microsoft Corporation, the Government has portrayed personal computer makers as little more than indentured servants of the software powerhouse.

At Intuit, that was happening with Quicken, the very brand that made it a software powerhouse in the 1980's and 1990's.

Crisscrossing the 50-acre Infosys campus in a golf cart, the delegation was asked how long it would take China to overtake India as software powerhouse.

Apple also took a significant step today toward what many in the computer industry believe will be the computer maker's eventual transformation into a software powerhouse rivaling Microsoft.

The Redmond, Wash., software powerhouse rose above $92 during two months but ended yesterday at $80.50, up 37.5 cents.

The Microsoft Corporation, the software powerhouse, is a leading standard bearer of the new economy.