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operating system

[op-uh-rey-ting sis-tuhm] / ˈɒp ə reɪ tɪŋ ˌsɪs təm /


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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 company’s flagship Delfi cloud operating system acts as a collaborative space where remote teams at an energy company leverage machine learning to eliminate workflow bottlenecks and significantly speed up drilling cycles.

From Barron's • May 28, 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

Not the hardware—which Jobs reluctantly abandoned because it cost too much and nobody wanted it—but the operating system, which proved to be as revolutionary as Jobs always claimed it would be.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

I’d begun writing for a new website, Slashdot.org, an intensely geeky techno/pop-culture site devoted to the open source Linux operating system and to the open source and free software movements.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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