operating system

Example Sentences

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Apple deftly made the transition to Arm Macs because it controlled every part of the product: The chip, the device, the operating system, many of the apps, and the developer tools.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

The operating system stayed embedded in retail, banking, healthcare, energy, law enforcement and defense systems long after it should have been retired.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

Palantir has become the operating system for the Defense Department.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

He also drew parallels between the current environment, when the internet was just beginning to flourish and Windows 95, a groundbreaking operating system, was first released.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

This is how having a funny brain that runs on a different operating system from other people’s helped me to figure out what had happened.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd