Bits & Bytes: Brief Introduction to popular operating systems.....

I'm going to give you a short introduction about the popular operating systems that I mentioned in a previous post (Something about Operating systems).

First let's have a look at the most popular operating system in the world.

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft windows operating systems are developed and sold by Microsoft. Windows is a graphical use interface operating system.

First Microsoft Windows operating system was named as Windows 1.0 and it was released on 20 th of November,1985. Then it overtook the prsonal computer market from Mac OS.

Families of windows:

Family Kernel type
Windows 9x DOS
Windows CE DOS
Windows NT Hybrid

Some versions of Microsoft Windows:

Windows 2.0 in 1987
Windows 3.0 in 1990
Windows NT 3.1 in 1993
Windows 95 in 1995
Windows NT 4.0 in 1996
Windows 98 in 1998
Windows 2000 in 2000
Windows XP in 2001
Windows Vista in 2006/07
Windows 07 in 2009
The latest version Windows 08 will be release soon.

Net market share of Microsoft Windows is shown below(in 2012).

Windows 07 40.5%
Windows Vista 44.9%
Windows XP 6.9%
Windows 2000 0.1%
Windows 98 0.1%

These operating systems are programmed in C, C++ and assembly language.Supported platforms are ARM, IA-32, Itanium, x86-64.

Windows operating systems can be update using Windows Update or Windows Anytime Upgrade.

Linux

Linux Kernel is the defining component of Linux. Linux was programmed using a lot of languages. The first operating system kernel was released by Linus Torvalds in 5th of October in 1991.