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Windows is still the dominant desktop OS, but the dominance varies by region and it has gradually lost market share to other desktop operating systems (not just to mobile) with the slide very noticeable in the US, where macOS usage has more than quadrupled from Jan. 2009 to Dec. 2020 to 30.62% (i.e. in Christmas month; and 34.72% in April 2020 ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was once asked about Chrome OS, Google's cloud-based operating system. It was 2009, and Chrome OS had just been announced. Ballmer laughed. With Ballmer announcing his ...
ChromeOS, sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS, is a Linux distribution developed and designed by Google. [8] It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS operating system and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.
RISC OS 4.39 2004: Bundled with hardware, then sold separately at £70 (US$127) Proprietary: Education, personal computer: RISC OS 5 Castle Technology, RISC OS Open: 2002 RISC OS 4 5.28 [6] 2020: No cost: Apache-2.0: Education, personal computer: RISC OS 6 RISCOS Ltd 2006 RISC OS 4 6.20 2009: Bundled with hardware, then sold separately at £70 ...
ChromiumOS (formerly styled as Chromium OS) is a free and open-source Linux distribution designed for running web applications and browsing the World Wide Web. It is the open-source version of ChromeOS , a Linux distribution made by Google .
Browsers are compiled to run on certain operating systems, without emulation.. This list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common OSes today (e.g. Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when macOS 10 did not exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (for example, the Opera web browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones ...
Chromebooks ship with ChromeOS, an operating system that uses the Linux kernel and the Google Chrome web browser with an integrated media-player. [32] [33] Enabling developer mode allows the installation of Linux distributions and other operating systems on Chromebooks. Chromebooks also include a screw or switch directly on the motherboard to ...
A kernel is a component of a computer operating system. [1] A comparison of system kernels can provide insight into the design and architectural choices made by the developers of particular operating systems.