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Citrix offers the ability to store the desktop environment centrally and publish it to remote users. Microsoft acquired some of this technology to develop their terminal server solution. Virtualization is a technology that evolved from mainframe computer, initially into the x86 architecture servers, and now enables virtualized desktop environments.
Features introduced in version 10.4 include Automator, an application designed to create an automatic workflow for different tasks; [51] Dashboard, a full-screen group of small applications called desktop widgets that can be called up and dismissed in one keystroke; [52] and Front Row, a media viewer interface accessed by the Apple Remote. [53]
Windows 10 also introduced the Microsoft Edge web browser, a virtual desktop system, a window and desktop management feature called Task View, support for fingerprint and face recognition login, new security features for enterprise environments, and DirectX 12. The Windows Runtime app ecosystem was revised into the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).
Multitasking is a common feature of computer operating systems since at least the 1960s. It allows more efficient use of the computer hardware; when a program is waiting for some external event such as a user input or an input/output transfer with a peripheral to complete, the central processor can still be used with another program.
In computing, a desktop environment (IDE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell. The desktop environment was seen mostly on personal computers until the rise of mobile ...
An operating environment is not a full operating system, but is a form of middleware that rests between the OS and the application. For example, the first version of Microsoft Windows , Windows 1.0 , was not a full operating system, but a GUI laid over DOS albeit with an API of its own.
A server is a computer that provides information to other computers called "clients" on a computer network. [1] This architecture is called the client–server model. Servers can provide various functionalities, often called "services", such as sharing data or resources among multiple clients or performing computations for a client. A single ...
Multitenancy simplifies the release management process. In a traditional release management process, packages containing code and database changes are distributed to client desktop and/or server machines; in the single-instance case, this would be one server machine per customer. These packages then have to be installed on each individual machine.