Whether it's a desktop or laptop computer, a smartphone or a video game system, every modern computer needs an operating system. That's the core software on the computer that sits between ...

What's really the most popular operating system? That depends on how you look at them and who's doing the looking. For example, Net Applications shows Windows on top of the desktop operating ...

For example ... of a period is common in the server world. Multitasking, which is the ability to simultaneously execute multiple programs, is available in all operating systems today.

There are many kinds of software, including operating systems, applications ... Excel and Outlook are common examples). Database software like Microsoft Access is used to organize and manage ...

2013 was a challenging year for Microsoft. It started with Windows 8 just coming into the market, the company's obvious hope being that it would set the world alight. What happened instead was an ...

For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the ... viewing this as an example of Google beating out Apple directly might not be accurate.