And Schiller likely will tout the latest version of Apple's OS X operating system, Snow Leopard, due this year.
The new version of Apple 's OS X operating system that the Cupertino, California-based company will release Friday is a big part of the reason why.
First, it requires a Mac running the Jaguar version of Apple's OS X operating system (version 10.2 or later), which is how it gets its razor-sharp graphics.
The new version of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s OS X operating system that the Cupertino, California-based company will release Friday is a big part of the reason why.
Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
This quarter's star will be Apple's OS X Leopard operating system.
The TomTom navigation application for iPhone will be available via the Apple iTunes App Store, following the release of Apple's OS 3.0 operating system.
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And Apple's stylish operating system, Mac OS, no longer enjoys much of an advantage over Microsoft's products.
It might seem a little early, with the last version of Apple's operating system, OS X Leopard, going on sale last October.
But more recently, users of Apple's newest operating system, OS X, have again been left out of the exclusive club that the Exchange server can sometimes seem to be.
BarCap's Gardiner says Vanjoki's replacement could consider moving Nokia towards embracing Google's Android, the mobile operating system (OS) that is growing at many times the speed of Nokia's own OS, Symbian.
The 700p also marks Palm's return to its traditional Palm OS operating system.
Like its predecessors, the newest PalmPilot, the Palm III, is one of the best-designed bits of consumer electronics ever made. 3Com's proprietary operating system, the Palm OS, is amazingly intuitive and perfectly adapted to a device that most users turn on for mere seconds at a time.
Even OS X, the Mac's newest operating system, is based on a Unix computing approach only now hitting mainstream PC users through the migration of Linux to the desktop.
Graffiti is only available for devices that use Palm OS, 3Com's outstanding and highly intuitive operating system for handheld devices.
More broadly, Apple's move to put a shrunk-down version of its operating system, OS X, on the iPhone and the iPod Touch tells us that Apple sees portable, Web-friendly gizmos as a big part of its future.
Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee who now heads the Army's Apple program, argues that the Unix core at the center of the Mac OS operating system makes it easier to lock down a Mac than a Windows platform.
Until today, it's been tough for even Chromebook sympathizers to defend Chrome OS' status as a bona fide operating system.
We've been waiting on pins and needles for Google to announce some official Android tablet plans for so long we'd almost forgotten about Mountain View's other operating system -- but from what we're hearing, Chrome OS is about to jump to center stage with a tablet debut on Verizon just before the holidays.
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