operating system
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“They want to be utilities like your water company, like your electricity company, and Facebook wanted to be the operating system of your life,” he said.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
However, in May, it said it would be making the site available again for some UK Apple users who had confirmed their age with the company's most up-to-date version of iOS, its mobile operating system.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Just about every operating system works in that environment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
The search giant took aim at Microsoft’s internet Explorer—then the dominant player in the market—with features that resembled an operating system rather than a traditional browser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The first version of the Windows operating system launched in 1985, and the breakthrough version that made IBM PCs much more user-friendly—Windows 3.0—shipped on May 22, 1990, only six months after the wall went down.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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