operating system
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Google makes the other dominant smartphone operating system, Android, and builds its own Pixel smartphones that include AI features Apple can’t yet match.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
"Mac and Windows are the operating systems for the personal computer. OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI," Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang said in a statement.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
Its Basic programming language and DOS operating system weren’t innovative in the market—but became standards.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
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
It was so good, in fact, that it became—and remains—the operating system on which literally millions of computers around the world run.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.