Jealine Marie Bernabe 3bio3 Timeline: Development of Windows Operating System 1975–1981: Microsoft boots up In 1975‚ Gates and Allen form a partnership called Microsoft. Like most start-ups‚ Microsoft begins small‚ but has a huge vision—a computer on every desktop and in every home. During the next years‚ Microsoft begins to change the ways we work. The dawn of MSDOS In June 1980‚ Microsoft focuses on a new operating system—the software that manages‚ or runs‚ the computer hardware and also serves
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Introduction: Comparisons between the Microsoft Windows and Linux computer operating systems are a long-running discussion topic within the personal computer industry. Throughout the entire period of the Windows 9x systems through the introduction of Windows 7‚ Windows has retained an extremely large retail sales majority among operating systems for personal desktop use‚ while Linux has sustained its status as the most prominent free software operating system. After their initial clash‚ both operating
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Linux Vs Windows 1. Why has Microsoft been so successful with Windows? Windows has been successful with Windows for a number of reasons such as below: * Dominant Operating System/Large Installation Base: Windows was first launched in 1983‚ and has been the most dominant Operating System with a huge market share and installation base. * Enormous plethora of GUIs: Microsoft windows provide a range of features from a step-by-step user interface for novice users to powerful interfaces
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Analyse the ‘Broken Window’ theory in relation to crime prevention. What are the main strengths and weaknesses of this theory. The Broken Windows theory was first proposed by two social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in the 1982 article‚ "Broken Windows"‚ ( Wilson and Kelling‚ 1982). The analogy of broken windows used to explain this theory is that signs of disorder in a neighborhood inhibit the efforts of the residents to show social control. Any lack of social control makes
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St. Paul University Quezon City College of Business and Technology Aurora Boulevard‚ Corner Gilmore Avenue‚ Quezon City "A comparative study of Microsoft Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard" A proposed project presented to the faculty of St. Paul University - Quezon City College of Business and Technology In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the subject Operating System. Submitted By: A‚ Liezl D‚ Lian J‚ Irvin L‚ Raymond M‚ Kate R‚ Regine S.‚ Dianna Submitted
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Soumenjit Mitra Value Creation Paper MBUS 627 Introduction The history of Microsoft is a textbook case of the power of broad vision. In the early days‚ Microsoft ’s MS-DOS competed head to head with IBM ’s OS/2. Where IBM was myopically fixated on large customers as the only part of the market‚ Microsoft saw the market more broadly as every person in the world. This allowed them to take market share and become the monolithic corporation they are today by making their operating systems cheaply
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Windows Azure™ Security Overview By Charlie Kaufman and Ramanathan Venkatapathy Abstract Windows Azure‚ as an application hosting platform‚ must provide confidentiality‚ integrity‚ and availability of customer data. It must also provide transparent accountability to allow customers and their agents to track administration of services‚ by themselves and by Microsoft. This document describes the array of controls implemented within Windows Azure‚ so customers can determine if these capabilities
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LINUX vs. WINDOWS The debate on Windows vs. Linux is truly an on going one with no end in site. Regardless how you come at this juncture you are usually a UNIX supporter or a customer of Microsoft OS and products who are grateful for products of Microsoft. We will in the following paragraphs try to compare the advantages and disadvantages of these different systems. We will give a brief description on the cost of these products‚ what kind of market-share these two systems hold‚ the availability
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*Brief History of Windows After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800‚ Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS)‚ the creators of the new microcomputer‚ to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. In reality‚ Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS’s interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo
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LINUX VS WINDOWS LINUX VS WINDOWS LINUX WINDOWS • Linux is an example of Open Source software development and Free Operating System (OS). • Linux can be freely distributed‚ downloaded freely‚ distributed through magazines‚ Books etc. There are priced versions for Linux also‚ but they are normally cheaper than Windows. . • Windows is the family of operating system (OS) from Microsoft‚ which is the most famous OS in the world. • For desktop or home use‚ Windows can be expensive. A single copy
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