Do you ever imagine how computers or smartphones work and what keeps them 'alive' ? What engineers need to do to make these devices able to work properly?
The computer's 'life' is known as Operating System...
The Operating System (OS) is system software that manages and connects computer hardware and software and produce common services and orders for the computer programs. The operating system can makes a task scheduling and keeps the working operations to work flawless during the user's orders.
In essence, the operating system is a kind of 'intermediary' between the computer software and hardware and makes every physical instruction in the hardware to be perfectly translated in code that is easy understandable from the computer software, to keep the working on a right way.
There are many operating systems that are used today. Some of them are used for desktop computers and laptops, some of them are used for today's smartphones and similar smart devices. Here are the best and most popular operating systems in 2019...
1. Windows
Microsoft Windows is a leading proprietary software in the world that is designed and build by Microsoft Inc. back in 1985.
The very first version of Microsoft Windows operating system was shipped for Intel architecture personal computers back in the days. After that, Microsoft released another version of this operating system 10 years later in 1995, that was known as Windows 95.
After putting a lot of efforts and work in building operating system for computers around the world, the servers editions started to be used around the world. Looking the analytics of today's technology marketplace, the most used version of Windows operating system in the world is Windows 7, created back in 2011. The latest version of this operating system is Windows Server 2019.
Windows has a computer/laptop market share of 79% in 2019 and that makes Microsoft Windows the most used operative system in the world.
2. Mac OS
Mac Operating System is the most popular graphic operating system, build and designed by Apple Incorporation back in 2001. Mac OS is the leading and primary operative system of Apple's family for computers, smartphones and similar devices.
Macintosh Operating System was represented in 2001 with the name "The classic Mac OS" and the first updated version was released a year later. Between the year of 1999 and 2009, Apple's OS gained a lot of popularity around the world thanks to their new version named as Mac OS X.
Mac OS is the second most used and most popular operative system in the world. Looking for the desktop, laptop, smartphone market share, Mac OS reached 9% of the usage around the world and that makes this operative system the second major operative system after Microsoft Windows.
This Apple's OS owned a lot of versions, for example Mojave, Sierra, High Sierra, Mavericks, Catalina and so much more. The most used and popular Mac OS today is Mojave, with market share of 42%. The latest version of this operative system is Mac OS Mojave 10.14
3. Linux
The family of open-source operating systems - Linux, is built and distributed by Linus Torvalds in 1991. This operating system is packaged with Linux distribution named as Linux Kernel, a supporting system software with additional libraries.
The most popular distributions/versions of this operating system are Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. These Linux distributions contain windowing system that allows to the user to do multitasking, thanks to the incredibly designed working interface and environment.
Linux is certainly developed and built for desktop/laptop computers with Intel architecture and after certain period of time, it was updated for different platforms and other operating systems.
Linux is completely leader between open-source operating systems including general-purpose operating systems. The latest version of this operating system is Linux Kernel with market share of 2,18% on the world's usability.
4. Android
Developed by Google in 2008, Android represent the major mobile operating system on today's marketplace.
Android's developing is based on the modified Linux Kernel open-source distribution software. Designed certainly for mobile phones with touchscreen, Android is the most used operating system in mobile industry, including usage for smartphones, tablets and other smart technology devices.
The very first commercial Android device was launched in 2008. The propriety software that is owned by Google related for Android operating system devices is Google Mobile Services, that include apps such a Gmail, Google Play, Google Maps, Google Chrome, Google+ and similar. This package comes in default for every Android device around the world.
Android was bestselling operating system for smartphones in 2011 and tablets in 2013. Looking to the data of today's analytics, Android owned 85% of the world's market share and up to 2022, it is expected to be 0.5% more...
5. Apple iOS
iOS or iPhone Operating System is mobile operating system created and designed by Apple Incorporation. iOS is developed for smartphones and devices just for Apple family. Devices that are not belong to Apple, can't be build or programmed with iOS.
The first iPhone was released in 2007 and soon after that, the first iPod touch the same year.
Apple built their own platform named as Apple Store where the users of iPhones can easily be informed about new mobile app or similar and can download it on their devices.
Apple's App Store contain more than 2 million applications with 1 million apps just for Apple iPads. Every year Apple release updates for the newest version of their operating system. The latest version of iOS is iOS 12, and this autumn is expected to be released the iOS 13 version.
Apple's iOS has 13% of today's marketplace with annual revenue from 58 billion dollars.
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