An operating system to manage batteries would work much like an operating system for your computer or cell phone: it coordinates the communications between the hardware and the apps to make sure the various programs, such as those for taking photos and browsing the Internet in the case of cell phones, are running well and do not interfere with each other.
Microsoft has shown off the next version of Windows 8 at its BUILD conference in California, giving 5, 000 developers a Samsung tablet running the operating system, Computer World reports.
The collective unconscious is rather like the operating system on our computer and it is by exploring those archetypes in the plays of Shakespeare, that corporate leaders can enhance their rational and analytical core competencies.
We cannot invent a stable money any more than we have ever invented a fully stable computer operating system.
Valley folk point out that Judge Jackson thinks that a computer operating system and Internet browsing software should be separate.
And again, none of them holds out the prospect of domination in the way that the operating system dominates the personal computer.
He's got a crush on his computer operating system, named Tammy, and has the great misfortune of getting stuck in a time loop.
LINUX, the free computer operating system developed by thousands of volunteers collaborating over the Internet, is still not taken very seriously in corporate circles.
It was the first mass-market idiot-proof touch-to-get operating system that provided a computer experience to people without the experience or the inclination to use one.
FORBES: The Apple iPhone at Age 6: My, How Things Have Changed
District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said in June that Microsoft should be split in two as its sentence for abusing its dominant position in the personal computer operating system market.
Google will make the touch-enabled Chrome operating system available to other computer makers, and Mr. Pichai said he hopes that other Chrome touch devices will come on the market later this year.
Look what happened to IBM when it ceded the personal computer operating system to Microsoft and the processors to Intel, or when Microsoft allowed Apple and Google to dominate the mobile operating platform.
FORBES: Google's Trillion-Dollar Driverless Car -- Part 3: Sooner Than You Think
They also say they're reluctant to commit to Windows Phone until Microsoft clarifies whether apps will work with future software releases, including Windows 8, the next computer operating system expected this year for desktops and tablets.
MS-DOS and later Windows as the dominant operating system for the personal computer thanks to its own pioneering efforts, the brilliance of its business strategy and the network effects that give a single standard inherent advantages over any rivals.
Who would have believed just 20 years ago that you could build a successful computer operating system using only volunteers, working without a plan or assigned tasks to produce a quality product that garners a 25 percent market share?
SourceXchange's mission is to help computer hackers who contribute to open-source software, such as the popular operating system Linux, to link up with computer companies.
By making Windows virtually the only operating-system choice available to computer manufacturers, Microsoft was a principal benefactor of the boom in desktop computing.
The final myth is the one that leads to the most pronounced false sense of security - that my make of computer or operating system is not vulnerable to security problems.
The next-generation of computer operating-system interfaces from Microsoft and Netscape is dispensing with most metaphors in favour of something that looks more like the typical text-and-image Web article than like the Mac's faux office.
Microsoft warned customers this week that two critical vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system are being actively exploited by computer crooks to take over users' computers.
Currently, Chrome follows standard industry practices to resolve Web addresses: Chrome sends a request to the underlying operating system which reaches out to another computer on the Internet known as a DNS server.
FORBES: Why a small change to Google Chrome could have big implications for Internet users
How many consumers would feel confident with their computer running the same operating system as their mobile phone?
FORBES: The Nightmare That Keeps Microsoft Awake... Android On The Desktop
This software colossus's domination of the personal computer's operating-system market is complete.
Its Sparc computer chip and Solaris operating system have been made less relevant by Microsoft Windows, Intel chips and the open-source Linux operating system.
That's in contrast to mainframe applications, or even versions of the "open" Unix operating system that were specific to a given computer manufacturer's hardware.
When a company of 50, 000 employees has several thousand applications, trying to create versions of all of those apps for each computer and mobile device operating system is an enormous unfunded mandate.
FORBES: Beyond BYOD: A Strategy for Comprehensive Mobile Productivity
Initially seen as a way to enhance web pages, Java was soon talked of as a lingua franca for computers: small programs, called applets, written in Java would be distributed via the Internet and downloaded to run on any computer, regardless of operating system.
How do you compete with an operating system that can be found in virtually every computer in the world?
Yesterday Google unveiled Chromebook, a new kind of computer that uses the Chrome operating system and stores everything online.
应用推荐