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2. Dell n Series - Wikipedia

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   The n Series is a Dell product line that does not ship with a pre-installed version of Microsoft Windows.Apparently prohibited from shipping computers without an operating system by an existing licensing agreement with Microsoft, Dell instead ships these systems with either the open-source FreeDOS operating system or the Ubuntu Linux distribution not preinstalled, but on install disks.

3. Bare machine - Wikipedia

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   In computer science, bare machine (or bare metal computer) refers to a computer which has no operating system. [1] The software executed by a bare machine, commonly called a "bare metal program" or "bare metal application", [ 2 ] is designed to interact directly with hardware.

4. Bundling of Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft encourages original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to supply computers with Windows pre-installed, [3] saying that purchasers benefit by not having to install an operating system. [4] Analyst Vishal Tripathi said that many people purchase PCs with pre-installed operating systems because they do not want to deal with the "learning ...

5. Instant-on - Wikipedia

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   Instant-on technology is today mostly used on laptops, netbooks, and nettops because the user can boot up one program, instead of waiting for the PC's operating system to boot. This allows a user to launch a single program, such as a movie-playing program or a web browser , without the need of the whole operating system.

6. Netbook - Wikipedia

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   For Windows 8, in a ploy to counter ChromeOS-based netbooks and low-end Android tablets, Microsoft began to offer no-cost Windows licenses to OEMs for devices with screens smaller than 9 inches in size. Additionally, Microsoft began to offer low-cost licenses for a variant of the operating system set up to use Microsoft's Bing search engine by ...

7. List of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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   Timeline showing releases of Windows for personal computers and servers. Microsoft Windows is a computer operating system developed by Microsoft. It was first launched in 1985 as a graphical operating system built on MS-DOS. The initial version was followed by several subsequent releases, and by the early 1990s, the Windows line had split into ...