We focused on 28-year-old Linus Torvalds, a Finn who in 1991 wrote the first version of Linux, operating system software that has become the darling of hard-core computer users.
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.
While the company distributes millions of copies of its dominant Windows operating system (which holds about 90% of the PC market) through computer makers such as HP, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and others, the company reached a deal with Nokia to begin to expand its smartphone presence.
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LINUX, the free computer operating system developed by thousands of volunteers collaborating over the Internet, is still not taken very seriously in corporate circles.
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.
Yesterday Google unveiled Chromebook, a new kind of computer that uses the Chrome operating system and stores everything online.
While Microsoft has sold 100 million copies of the operating system since it went on sale in 2007, most of those sales have been drummed up by computer makers who install the software on their computers before selling them to consumers.
This software colossus's domination of the personal computer's operating-system market is complete.
And God forbid if you wanted to buy a new computer running a different version of the operating system than all the others in the office.
And again, none of them holds out the prospect of domination in the way that the operating system dominates the personal computer.
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.
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By making Windows virtually the only operating-system choice available to computer manufacturers, Microsoft was a principal benefactor of the boom in desktop computing.
Only the work horses of servers and its operating system software hold their primacy, but with computer hardware shipments in decline, even software profits could be challenged.
Mr. Ballmer styled the new tablet device as a vehicle to exploit its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, and a variant called Windows RT that relies on different kinds of computer chips.
He's got a crush on his computer operating system, named Tammy, and has the great misfortune of getting stuck in a time loop.
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.
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.
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.
The NOR type needs to be ultrafast because it is directly connected to the central processing unit of a computer and stores its basic input-output system (the operating system used by the microchip that lies beneath user-interface operating systems, such as Windows).
Ubuntu is based on the Linux operating system and its development and use is governed by an open ethic that emphasises the sharing of core computer code.
Had Apple licensed its brilliant operating system in the 1980s, it might have been Apple and not Microsoft that became the colossus of the personal-computer industry.
External hard drives are a good way of keeping transient data off your computer's core hard drive, which should give your operating system some extra room to do its job more efficiently.
That much make sense: Given how much of a data center is virtualized, and the management of that becoming something of an overarching operating system, servers may start to look something like what assembly language does now in a single computer: something critical, but not something people look at a lot, and not a place to stake your fortune.
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