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operating system

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


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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

The airline struggled more than rivals after the CrowdStrike outage two summers ago crashed millions of computers around the world running Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 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

If the computer’s operating system was rewritten, computer scientists realized, the machine’s time could be shared; the computer could be trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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