The issue focused on an Internet technology called software-defined networking, or SDN, which Microsoft was working to bring to Windows servers. What's more, it made the computer systems for software developers and hardware manufacturers work together to better understand what devices are running on them.

In other words, companies would be able to run applications that had been written for computers in one device and then put them into machines that were already being used by others. This way, software could get software updates even if they came from