enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Bare machine - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_machine

   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.

3. Bundling of Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows

   In 1999, Maximum PC wrote that non-Windows users "have long griped that machines from large companies can't be purchased without Windows". [6] In 1999, analyst Rob Enderle attributed the lack of computers without Windows available for individual purchase to economic impracticality, citing certification and warranty requirements. [6]

4. Instant-on - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-on

   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.

5. System requirements - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_requirements

   To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer. [1] These prerequisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Most software defines two sets of system requirements: minimum and recommended.

6. ‘Technology runs everything.’ Free laptops, digital equity ...

   www.aol.com/news/technology-runs-everything-free...

   For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

7. One Laptop per Child - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

   James Utzschneider, from Microsoft, said that initially only one operating system could be chosen. [66] [67] OLPC, however, said that future OLPC work would enable XO-1 laptops to dual boot either the free and open Linux/Sugar OS or the proprietary Microsoft Windows XP. Negroponte further said that "OLPC will sell Linux-only and dual-boot, and ...