Operating System Analysis

Abstract

This is to introduce and inform of different operating systems that are currently on the internet. The paper will involve main features of how these operating systems differ and some similarities in how they operate with systems.

The first and foremost was the introduction of each one of the described operating systems and how they work (Oreilly, 2010). There are many operating systems that are common on the Internet today. Back when computers could only handle one command at a time, in the 1950's, was very time consuming. Now, about sixty years later, a computer's operating system can handle many applications at one time while delivering speed and is user friendly (Oreilly, 2010). Although there are many Operating Systems that are available, there are only a few of them that are well known and is commonly used. Some of the most common Operating Systems that are used on the Internet are the Windows platforms such as Windows XP, Vista, 7, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Apple, and Linux Apache. Along with these common there are also from smartphone there is Android, Symbian, PalmOS, MAC OS, and Windows Mobile.

All of the Windows operating systems how outstanding features from the beginning of time (Oreilly, 2010). It all began with MS-DOS then to Windows 1.0, 2.0, 2.1x, 3.0, 3.1, in which used GUI and operating under DOS. The breakthrough of Windows 95 and 98 appeared to operate along with DOS could run with the plug-n-play option on other hardware. Windows 95 was the one who came with the possibility of service packs this began in August of 1995. Then in February 2000 Windows 2000 was created then following that was Windows ME in September 2000 both parts of this OS brought out "booting with DOS" and system restore not losing any important information. As Microsoft provided the use of Windows 95 and 98 here came Windows NT in which did the use of product activation (Oreilly, 2010). There was the advantage of Windows NT including 64Bit or X86 based computers. This Windows 64 bit could be issued as just that or 32-bit in an operating system. In October 25, 2001 the release of Windows XP Home and Professional were provided by users with a real change in graphics. These made Windows more interesting to users becoming extremely popular in the consumer world. It also became more secure with a firewall applied in one of the service packs of the upgrade. Here then came the appearance of Windows Vista in January 2007 that was sort of an upside version of Windows XP. The personalization of Vista was increased with improved graphics and issues with capability (Oreilly, 2010). Finally Windows 7 was brought out to the public in October 2009 was intended to be a more focused, incremental upgrade to the Windows line, with the goal of being compatible