The Department of Computer Science at Lancaster University is a leading British computer science department with research interests that include distributed multimedia systems, mobile computing, software systems engineering, interactive systems and natural language processing. As with most others in the academic field, Lancaster researchers traditionally employed one of the UNIX operating systems-typically NetBSD, FreeBSD, or Linux. However, some of the Ph.D. students at Lancaster started to experiment with the Windows source code as an alternative to the more established research platforms. Lancaster University was one of the first universities in Europe to receive a source license for the Microsoft Windows CE operating system. The success of the LandMARC project at Lancaster University through the Microsoft Research Source Licensing Program (MSRLP) proves that talented university researchers can successfully utilize Windows source code and establish a close rapport with research and development groups inside Microsoft, and that both sides can work conjointly in developing top-quality operating system code.
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