operating system

Example Sentences

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The case claims the shop built into the PlayStation's operating system was designed to make players a "captive class".

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

Most notably, it struggled to produce a modern multitasking operating system to replace the Mac—and eventually had to buy Next to acquire one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

On top of the 699-euro phone, Punkt requires a 10-euro monthly subscription after one year of use, which the company says covers the costs of the operating system.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Their Android-based operating system offers users centralised settings designed to control access to their data, with a selectable security level on a scale of one to five.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Then he would come out of it, and the two would go out to dinner, then plunge into writing some program or into a long battle over which operating system was superior.

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