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Comparative Report On Modern Operating Systems

This report compares the modern operating systems Linux and Windows across several criteria such as cost, security, configurability, and user-friendliness. It examines how both operating systems have grown significantly in the server market since 1993. While Windows initially controlled more of the server market share in the early 2000s, Linux has become the dominant operating system for major websites and servers, owing to its reliability, flexibility, and lack of licensing costs compared to Windows.

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Comparative Report On Modern Operating Systems

This report compares the modern operating systems Linux and Windows across several criteria such as cost, security, configurability, and user-friendliness. It examines how both operating systems have grown significantly in the server market since 1993. While Windows initially controlled more of the server market share in the early 2000s, Linux has become the dominant operating system for major websites and servers, owing to its reliability, flexibility, and lack of licensing costs compared to Windows.

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Comparative report on modern Operating Systems.

Linux vs. Windows: 

This report examines Windows and Linux side by side on the following criteria: Cost, Security, 
Configurability and User-friendliness. 
This report will also examine specific instances when each operating system might be the more 
suitable choice for the task at hand. 
 
Introduction 

Linux and Windows are two operating systems that are constantly competing from control of the 
Computer market. Both operating systems have shown considerable growth in the server world. 

Microsoft released its first server OS in 1993 under the name Windows NT, just about the time that the
Linux OS began surfacing on the internet. Since then Windows servers and Linux servers began growing
by leaps and bounds. Many servers that were run by UNIX began converting to Linux, 
a trend that would continue into the early twenty-first century. 
Windows NT use began growing largely due  to the fact that NT introduced the first 32-
bit implementation of the Windows API. An API includes the protocol, routines, and libraries needed fo
r application building. By 2000, Windows and Linux each controlled roughly half of the overall server m
arket. The Linux side contained such as NetWare, BSD, and Debian-based Linux. 
However by 2008, Windows controlled 38.8 percent of the overall server market share compared to Lin
ux’s 12.7 percent. However this data is based on total revenue of both servers and most Linux server so
ftware distributions are free and sales are rarely documented. As of 2009, five of the top ten most relia
ble servers ran Linux, three ran FreeBSD, and only two ran Windows. Some examples include Google, Y
ahoo, YouTube, and Facebook and key governmental agencies such as the US Army. Linux is by far the c
hoice of operating system for many major websites. One of the few major website I could find that ran 
Windows was by no surprise windows.com. In many peoples’ minds Linux is the only opinion for quality 
web servers, but for others nothing is easier than the “point and click” allure of Windows. Ever since 19
93, Linux and Windows have both attempted to gain control of the server market. 
There are many advantages and disadvantages to both operating systems in the server world. 

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