An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video games to web browsing, basic word processing, and more is down thanks to ...

The first real operating system to be mentioned is GM-NAA I/O, which came about in the 1950s. This was intended for the IBM 704 mainframe. Compared to modern computers, this was a very barebones ...

The introduction of Live Tiles? The history of Microsoft’s flagship operating system (OS) includes all of that and so much more. Over the past 35 years, the Windows operating system has been ...

Apple is often credited with inventing the modern desktop operating system. That is, the operating system that uses a mouse and cursor to navigate around clickable items on a screen. Apple unveiled it ...

IBM’s System/38 and AS/400 minicomputers had a relational database at the heart of the operating system and in fact the database was the only file system allowed on these machines from 1978 through ...

Today DBOS announced that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding as well as the launch of its first product, DBOS Cloud, which provides a new type of cloud-native operating system for cloud ...

The QNodeOS operating system developed by Delle Donne and colleagues 1 is a theoretical and experimental framework that provides these for networked quantum computers (Fig. 1b).