The hardware provides the raw power and functionality that enables the computer to work, and the operating system controls the bulk of the hardware's activity.

Operating systems are the invisible engines behind every computer, smartphone, and smart device, yet many people take them for granted. This video explores every major operating system in use today, ...

There are operating systems and applications. Applications are products like the Microsoft Office suite, Adobe Acrobat, QuickBooks and the like. These are the products you use in your workaday life to ...

Today’s operating systems pose a significant barrier to a number of promised exciting innovations in computer hardware and applications — from personal assistant robots to autonomous vehicles to edge ...

The topic of operating systems is a very common one now, with new gadgets coming out all of the time that now run their own operating systems. But, when you still look at the personal computer ...

Microsoft battled Digital Research’s CP/M-based operating systems for the next few years, but as Ruffer and Waldman note, Microsoft was the leading producer of computer languages and had control over ...

A new cloud-based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed.

Modern PCs, tablets and smartphones have an easy-to-use, graphical veneer that hides the complexity of the operating system software beneath that enables them work. While the developers of your ...