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	List of operating systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that List of Microsoft operating systems be merged into this article or section.
		AMIX (Amiga porting of Unix System V release 3.1 with Amiga A2500UX and SVr4.0 with Amiga A3000UX.
		Operating systems that have only appeared in fiction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_operating_systems (1343 words)

	Operating Systems - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The operating system ensures that other applications are able to use memory, input and output devices and have access to the file system.
		Older operating systems which are still used in niche markets include the Windows-like OS/2 from IBM; VMS from Hewlett-Packard (formerly DEC); Mac OS, the non-Unix precursor to Apple's Mac OS X; and AmigaOS, the first GUI based operating system with advanced multimedia capabilities available to the general public.
		An operating system is conceptually broken into three sets of components: a user interface (which may consist of a graphical user interface and/or a command line interpreter or "shell"), low-level system utilities, and a kernel--which is the heart of the operating system.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /operating_systems.htm (1339 words)

	Microsoft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Microsoft Windows, the company was selling what would become the most widely used operating system in the world, which was originally an add-on for their DOS operating system; Microsoft continued to push into multiple markets, such as computer hardware and television.
		Microsoft would proceed to enter other business markets, such as publishing and video games, would be sued more than once by the U.S. Justice Department and other governments and companies, and would continue to dominate the operating system market.
		Microsoft has also been called a "velvet sweatshop" in reference to allegations of the company working its employees to the point where it might be bad for their health.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microsoft (6325 words)

	Microsoft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Microsoft's first operating system was Xenix, released in 1980 and later sold to Santa Cruz Operation.
		Microsoft entered the palm computing market in November with Windows CE 1.0, a new built-from-scratch version of their flagship operating system, specifically designed to run on low-memory, low-performance machines, such as handhelds and other palm-sized computers.
		Microsoft markets a number of computing-related hardware products, including mice, keyboards, joysticks, and gamepads, along with other game controllers, the production of which is outsourced in most cases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microsoft#History (6325 words)

	Encyclopedia: Operating Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Operating systems provide a set of functions needed and used by most applications, and provide the necessary linkages to control a computer's hardware.
		An operating system, or "monitor" as it was sometimes called, permitted jobs to become multistep with the monitor running several programs in sequence to effect the translation and subsequent run of the user's program.
		The system is an example of a system which started as a database application support program, graduated to system work, and still exists across a wide variety of systems supported on most unix systems as an addon database system.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Operating-Systems (1405 words)

	Microsuck \| What's So Bad About Microsoft?
		Microsoft demanded that the Virginia Beach government account for all copies of Microsoft software that were in use within the government and provide proof of purchase for each product.
		Microsoft has recently added "features" to its software in order to prevent unlicensed use, and users are already crying out at the negative effect this has had on usability and reliability.
		Microsoft was late to catch on to the fact that the web was going to revolutionize the way people used computers and once they finally woke up they were dangerously close to having their Windows monopoly destroyed by the greatly reduced importance of operating systems that a web based paradigm would produce.
	www.windows-sucks.com /content/whatsbad.shtml (4773 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Operating Systems Work"
		If you like to tinker with electronic devices, you are probably pleased that operating systems can now be found on many of the devices we use every day, from cell phones to wireless access points.
		This is far from a happy accident; one of the reasons operating systems are made out of portable code rather than permanent physical circuits is so that they can be changed or modified without having to scrap the whole device.
		The purpose of an operating system is to organize and control hardware and software so that the device it lives in behaves in a flexible but predictable way.
	www.howstuffworks.com /operating-system.htm (442 words)

	Review of Operating Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As embedded systems (PDAs, cellphones, point-of-sale devices, VCRs, industrial robot control, or even your toaster) become more complex hardware-wise with every generation, and more features are put into them by the day, applications they run require more and more to run on actual operating system code in order to keep the development time reasonable.
		Microsoft's attempts at fitting a large unstable desktop-PC operating system, with a hammer, into the stringent requirements of embedded systems are here: Windows CE (which is about to lose its 'CE' part so as to confuse people a bit more) and their latest monster,
		Aditya Bansod's OSS and OSS2 are operating system simulators for Windows that implement their own OS ontop, and provide abstraction for local processes.
	tunes.org /Review/OSes.html (3214 words)

	List of operating systems - Simple English Wikipedia
		OS/2 (Windows/MS-DOS compatible operating system developed through a joint Microsoft-IBM alliance, but later abandoned by Microsoft when they chose to focus on Windows NT; a considerable technical improvement on both early Windows and MS-DOS.
		Hobby OS Operating systems written for a hobby.
		Operating systems that have only appeared in fiction or as jokes.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_operating_systems (897 words)

	Microsoft Windows and other operating systems
		Microsoft adds new bells and whistles in each release, and claims that this time they've solved the countless problems in the previous versions...
		Unlike commercial operating systems, which are usually controlled in every detail by a single company, Linux has a standard consistent core (called the "kernel") around which many varieties (known as "distributions") have been produced by various companies and organisations.
		It is a Unix-like operating system being developed as a long-term project by the Free Software Foundation to offer a fully-free alternative to the commercial and BSD versions of Unix.
	microsoft.toddverbeek.com /os.html (2228 words)

	Microsoft Windows CE ("Pocket PC") and other palmheld (PDA) operating systems
		Microsoft has a record of "persuading" manufacturers who license Windows to use their other software as well, so it's no surprise that the traditional PC companies entering the palmheld market are using Microsoft's operating system for palmhelds.
		Linupy is the operating system of the G.Mate Yopy, a high-end (but fairly affordable) PDA that features a high-color screen, wireless internet connectivity, both keypad and handwriting input, and (although it already comes well-equipped) plenty of expansion capabilities.
		The smaller Unix-like operating systems should be able to run on any machine powerful enough to run Windows.
	microsoft.toddverbeek.com /palmheld.html (1259 words)

	List of operating systems: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Oberon operating system (additional info and facts about Oberon operating system) /(developed at ETH-Zurich by Niklaus Wirth (additional info and facts about Niklaus Wirth) et al) for the Ceres and Chameleon workstation projects.
		Operating systems that have only appeared in fiction (A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact).
		NNIX - an operating system for running programs in MMIX (additional info and facts about MMIX) assembly language, which are both used as (fictional) illustrations in The Art of Computer Programming (additional info and facts about The Art of Computer Programming).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_operating_systems.htm (3835 words)

	What is operating system? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers.
		The operating system is also responsible for security, ensuring that unauthorized users do not access the system.
		The commands are accepted and executed by a part of the operating system called the command processor or command line interpreter.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/o/operating_system.html (691 words)

	December 2004 Product List Addition - Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Operating System
		These subscriptions for MSDN operating systems will end either (a) one year from the registration date of the MSDN Operating System subscription, or (b) upon expiration of the Select License, Open License Value agreement, or Open License authorization number under which it was acquired.
		Customers with MSDN Operating System subscriptions acquired between December 1, 2003 and November 30, 2004 are eligible to acquire Software Assurance for these subscriptions without acquiring License and Software Assurance.
		The MSDN Operating System license that was acquired between December 1, 2003 and November 30, 2004 is deemed as the perpetual license for Software Assurance.
	msdn.microsoft.com /canada/visualstudio/MSDNOS.htm (295 words)

	Microsoft names new operating system 'Vista' - Jul. 22, 2005
		Microsoft also unveiled the Windows Vista Web site and said the first beta test version of the system, which will be targeted at developers and IT professionals, will be available by Aug. 3.
		Microsoft (Research) has promised that the new system will have several improvements, including better security features, more comprehensive search capabilities and a friendlier user interface.
		Licenses for operating systems and related software still account for the majority of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant's sales and operating profits.
	money.cnn.com /2005/07/22/technology/microsoft_vista?cnn=yes (520 words)

	List of Localized MS Operating Systems
		The system default LCID when you clean install the o/s (in both hex and decimal).
		The default system code page when you clean install the o/s.; Remember NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP are Unicode based; Thus the code page column represents the code page used when converting Unicode to another character encoding to be used by a non-Unicode application).
		Click on the version of an operating system that you would like to view for what languages it was localized.
	www.microsoft.com /globaldev/reference/oslocversion.mspx (205 words)

	Understanding File System Options
		FAT32 is supported by the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems as well as a number of the newer Microsoft operating systems.
		FAT32 volumes are not accessible from operating systems other than certain ones from Microsoft.
		Below is a list of Microsoft operating systems indicating which support native access to the FAT32 file system.
	www.serverwatch.com /tutorials/print.php/10825_2239651_2 (582 words)

	Compatibility of Symantec consumer products with Microsoft Windows operating systems
		When a new operating system is produced after Symantec software was released, new software compatibility issues sometimes occur.
		When upgrading to a new operating system, Symantec recommends that you first uninstall any software that is not compatible with the new operating system.
		When you upgrade an existing operating system to a new version, the new version, such as Windows XP, retains any programs that were on the computer before the upgrade.
	service1.symantec.com /SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/DOCID/2000011107215039 (631 words)

	List of Microsoft topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following is a list of Microsoft topics.
		List of Microsoft frameworks and component object models
		This page was last modified 19:46, 4 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Microsoft_topics (59 words)

	China tops new Microsoft president's hit-list - Operating Systems - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
		The new head of Microsoft's international business says one of his biggest priorities will be tapping into opportunities in emerging markets such as China, India and Russia.
		Jean-Philippe Courtois has this week been promoted to president of Microsoft International, in the process handing over responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and Africa to former Microsoft UK chief Neil Holloway.
		Courtois, who will report into Microsoft's worldwide head of sales Kevin Johnson in Redmond, added that established markets such as France, Germany, Japan and the UK will still remain key to future growth.
	software.silicon.com /os/0,39024651,39131333,00.htm (549 words)

	Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter
		This operating system quality and approval metric is based on a periodic AltaVista search for each of several operating systems, directly followed by "sucks", "rules", or "rocks".
		The Internet Operating System Counter (ios++) is an automated survey of which operating systems are in use on Internet web servers.
		aaronandmike@zgp.org because it feeds into an automated abuse reporting system.
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	Linux.com: The Enterprise Linux Resource
		SysAdmin to SysAdmin deals with both technical and non-technical aspects of the practice of system administration, for both novice and experienced readers.
		From grokking the finer points of vim, to designing fault-tolerant LDAP deployments, Brian Jones zeroes in on not only the technical challenges of system administration, but also the building and refining of "soft skills" which are key to any career.
		It provides a high-quality, full-featured client system that is suitable for use in a wide range of desktop deployments.
	www.linux.com (924 words)

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	Operating Systems: Microsoft Outlook - Distribution List
		I am using Microsoft Outlook 2000 and need to send an email out to all the people in my Distribution list.
		When the email is sent I want the email to appear with the name of the distribution list in their TO field eg.
		The easiest way to do this is to create the message and then put the distribution list under the BCC field..
	www.experts-exchange.com /Operating_Systems/Q_10357336.html (309 words)

	LinuxSA Mailing List: Microsoft delimiters (was: Operating systems.)
		> > 1) OS limitation; you can't "graft" a file system tree with a limited > file system/OS (and later implementations of grafting were a kludge).
		There are too many other things in Microsoft which look UNIX-like, and which would give more grounds for lawsuits than the choice of a / character.
		I think the first DOS with subdirectories was 2.0, which must have come out about 2 or 3 years later.
	www.linuxsa.org.au /mailing-list/2000-12/984.html (482 words)

	Amazon.com: Microsoft MSDN Operating Systems Subscription 7.0: Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MSDN Operating Systems provides priority access to essential resources for developers, including timely delivery of everything that is needed to build XML Web services and applications.
		With an MSDN Operating Systems subscription, users always have the resources they need to target development at custom Windows solutions and XML Web services.
		MSDN Operating Systems provides uninterrupted access to the latest Microsoft technologies 24 hours a day, seven days a week, online and through regular CD or DVD updates.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NGP9/installsite (449 words)

	Operating Systems
		"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems." Linus Torvalds
		-- by Thomas Narten at Duke U. High-level overview of the source code which can be used as companion to overcome the initial learning curve encountered when learning and using the system.
		-- The Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system that allows users to access files and directories located on remote computers and treat those files and directories as if they were local.
	www.personal.kent.edu /~rmuhamma/OpSystems/os.html (254 words)

	Windows Marketplace: Operating Systems
		You can subscribe to Windows Marketplace RSS feeds and receive up-to-date news about your favorite operating system and utilities topics.
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	www.windowsmarketplace.com /category.aspx?bCatID=306 (175 words)

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