•A collection of programs that manage and coordinate the

activities taking place within computer system.

•Desktop Operating System
•The three most common operating systems for desktop
or computers are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X,
and Linux.
•Modern operating systems use a graphical user interface,
or GUI.
Operating •A GUI lets you use your mouse to click icons, buttons,

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and menus, and everything is clearly displayed on the
screen using a combination of graphics and text.
System •Mobile Operating System
•A software platform on top of which other programs can
SOFTWARE run on mobile devices.
•The operating system is responsible for determining the
functions and features available on your device, such as
thumb wheel, keyboards, WAP, synchronization with
applications, email, text messaging and more.
• System software •Some types of mobile operating system is Android OS,
Blackberry OS and iOS
are all designed to •A program that performs a very specific task, usually
control and related to managing system resources.
•Operating systems contain a number of utilities for
coordinate the managing disk drives, printers, and other devices.
procedures and •Utilities differ from applications mostly in terms of size,
functions of Utility complexity and function.
•For example, word processors, spreadsheet programs,
computer and database applications are considered applications
hardware. Program because they are large programs that perform a variety of
functions not directly related to managing computer
• They actually resources.
enable functional •Utilities are sometimes installed as memory-
resident programs.
interaction between
•On DOS systems, such utilities are called TSRs.
hardware, software
and the user.
• System software
carries out •A device driver is a program that controls a
middleman tasks to particular type of device that is attached to your
ensure computer.
•There are device drivers for printers, displays, CD-
communication
between other
Device ROM readers, diskette drives, and so on.
•A device driver essentially converts the more general
software and
hardware to allow
drivers input/output instructions of the operating system to
messages that the device type can understand.
harmonious •In Windows operating systems, a device driver file
usually has a file name suffix of DLL or EXE. A virtual This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed
coexistence with device driver usually has the suffix of VXD.
the user.