FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Windows 8 introduced major changes to the operating system’s platform and user interface intended to improve its user experience on tablets, where Windows was now competing with mobile operating systems, including Android and iOS.

Detailed explanation-2: -The development of OS/2 began when IBM and Microsoft signed the “Joint Development Agreement” in August 1985. It was code-named “CP/DOS” and it took two years for the first product to be delivered. OS/2 1.0 was announced in April 1987 and released in December.

Detailed explanation-3: -Global market share held by computer operating systems 2012-2022, by month. Microsoft’s Windows is the most widely used computer operating system in the world, accounting for 70.68 percent share of the desktop, tablet, and console OS market in August 2022.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first version of Windows was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Windows is the most popular desktop operating system in the world, with 75% market share as of April 2022, according to StatCounter.

Detailed explanation-5: -Developed by Xerox, the GUI was popularized by the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. At the time, Microsoft’s operating system, MS-DOS, required the user to type specific commands, but the company’s GUI, Microsoft Windows, is now the dominant user interface for personal computers (PCs).