Question

Write the name of any two Operating Systems.

Answer 1

The three most common operating systems for personal computers are Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. An operating system or OS is software that communicates with the hardware and allows other programs to run. It is an interface between a computer user and computer hardware.

Windows Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows is developed and marketed by Microsoft.
• Microsoft Windows is usually known as Windows.
• They are a group of proprietary graphical operating systems.
• Microsoft introduced Windows on November 20, 1985.
• World’s market share in the Personal Computer (PC) market was dominated by Windows.
• Windows is available in 138 languages.
• Some of the different versions of Windows Desktop Operating system released by Microsoft were Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10.

Macintosh Operating Systems

• Macintosh Operating Systems were developed by Apple Inc.
• The original Macintosh Operating System – classic Mac OS is the original was introduced in 1984 alongside the first Macintosh.
• The first desktop version of the system was released on March 24, 2001.

Linux

• Linux is the leading operating system on servers
• Linux is the top operating system in around 96% of the world’s top 1 million web servers.