OS – Operating System. The software that a computer uses to run programs, manage data and storage, network communications and much more. Options are Linux, Windows, Apple OSX, and a bunch of others.

The war between Mac and Windows carries on today. The operating system is responsible for the proper management of your data and security. Although modern operating systems have become more tools for media consumption. Services and systems that computers use to care about like backups and security. Operating systems are now locking users into there brand of media services, like video watching and integration with Social Media.

The operating system is a complex system to manage the resources of the computer. Components it manages are the Processor Threads, reading and writing data to disks, memory Management and the Swap memory, networking, graphics display, Audio and much more for security, and services running in the background.

Mobile operating systems like Android and IOS are threatening the market share of the traditional OS.