Operating System Microsoft Windows

An Operating system Microsoft Windows has existed

(OS) is a software which in one form or another since 1985,
acts as an interface and it remains the most popular
between the end user and operating system for home and
computer hardware. Every office computers. Its latest versions,
computer must have at including Windows 10, are also
least one OS to run other used on some tablets, and the OS is
programs. An application used on some web and number-crunching server computers as well.
like Chrome, MS Word, Games, Computers from a wide variety of manufacturers can use Windows.
etc needs some environment in which it will run and perform its task. Initial versions of Windows worked with an earlier Microsoft
The OS helps you to communicate with the computer without knowing operating system called MS-DOS, providing a modern graphical
how to speak the computer's language. It is not possible for the user to
interface on top of DOS's traditional text-based commands. Signature
use any computer or mobile device without having an operating system.
features of Microsoft Windows's user interface include windows
themselves – rectangle-shaped, on-panel screens that represent
History Of OS
individual applications. The Windows Start menu has helped
 Operating systems were first developed in the late 1950s to
generations of users find programs and files on their devices.
manage tape storage
The history of Windows dates back to 1981, when Microsoft
 The General Motors Research Lab implemented the first OS in
started work on a program called "Interface Manager". It was
the early 1950s for their IBM 701
announced in November 1983 (after the Apple Lisa, but before
 In the mid-1960s, operating systems started to use disks
the Macintosh) under the name "Windows", but Windows 1.0 was not
 In the late 1960s, the first version of the Unix OS was developed
released until November 1985.[10] Windows 1.0 was to compete
 The first OS built by Microsoft was DOS. It was built in 1981 by
with Apple's operating system, but achieved little popularity.
purchasing the 86-DOS software from a Seattle company
Windows 1.0 is not a complete operating system; rather, it
 The present-day popular OS Windows first came to existence in
1985 when a GUI was created and paired with MS-DOS. extends MS-DOS.
Apple iOS Google's Android OS
Apple's iOS is one of the most Android is the most
popular smartphone operating popular operating system in
systems, second only to Android. It the world judging by the number
runs on Apple hardware, including of devices installed. Largely
iPhones, iPad tablets and iPod Touch developed by Google, it's chiefly
media players. used on smartphones and tablets.
Signature features of iOS Unlike iOS, it can be used on devices
include the App Store where users made by a variety of different
buy apps and download free software, an emphasis on security manufacturers, and those makers can tweak parts of its interface to
including strong encryption to limit what unauthorized users can suit their own needs.
extract from the phone, and a simple, streamlined interface with Users can download custom versions of the operating system
minimal hardware buttons. because large portions of it are open source, meaning anyone can
In 2005, when Steve Jobs began planning the iPhone, he had a legally modify it and publish their own. However, most people prefer
choice to either "shrink the Mac, which would be an epic feat of to stick with the version that comes on their devices.
engineering, or enlarge the iPod". Jobs favored the former approach Android, like iOS, comes with an application and media store
but pitted the Macintosh and iPod teams, led by Scott called the Play Store built by Google. Some phone manufacturers and
Forstall and Tony Fadell, respectively, against each other in an other organizations also offer their own stores to install software and
internal competition, with Forstall winning by creating the iPhone media.
OS. The decision enabled the success of the iPhone as a platform for In October 2003, well before the term “smartphone” was used
third-party developers: using a well-known desktop operating system by most of the public, and several years before Apple announced its
as its basis allowed the many third-party Mac developers to write first iPhone and its iOS, the company Android Inc was founded in
software for the iPhone with minimal retraining. Forstall was also Palo Alto, California. Its four founders were Rich Miner, Nick Sears,
responsible for creating a software development kit for programmers Chris White, and Andy Rubin.
to build iPhone apps, as well as an App Store within iTunes.
Apple macOS Linux Operating System
Apple's macOS, successor to Unlike many other operating
the popular OS X operating systems, development on Linux isn't
system, runs on Apple laptops led by any one company. The operating
and desktops. Based in part on system was created by Finnish
the historic family of Unix programmer Linus Torvalds in 1991.
operating systems dating back to Nowadays, programmers from all
research in the 1960s at AT&T's over the world collaborate on its
Bell Labs, macOS shares some open source code and submit tweaks
features with other Unix-related operating systems including Linux. to the central kernel software and other programs.
While the graphical interfaces are different, many of the underlying A wide assortment of commercial and open source software is
programming interfaces and command line features are the same. available for Linux, and various Linux distributions provide custom
Signature elements of macOS include the dock used to find user interfaces and tools for installing software onto machines
programs and frequently used files, unique keyboard keys including running the operating system. A favorite of many programmers,
the Command key, and the stoplight-colored buttons used to resize Linux is widely used on corporate and scientific servers, including
open program windows. MacOS is known for its user-friendly cloud computing environments. Linux can be run on a wide variety
features. of hardware and is available free of charge over the internet.
The history of macOS, Apple's current  Linux was originally developed for personal computers based
Mac operating system originally named Mac OS X until 2012 and on the Intel x86 architecture, but has since been ported to
then OS X until 2016, began with the company's project to replace more platforms than any other operating system. Linux is the leading
its "classic" Mac OS. That system, up to and including its final operating system on servers and other big iron systems such
release Mac OS 9, was a direct descendant of the operating system as mainframe computers, and the only OS used
Apple had used in its  on TOP500 supercomputers (since November 2017, having gradually
Macintosh computers since their introduction in 1984. However, the eliminated all competitors). It is used by around 2.3 percent
current macOS is a Unix operating system built on technology that of desktop computers. 
had been developed at NeXT from the 1980s until Apple purchased
the company in early 1997.