Setting Windows
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Setting Windows

Pic 1 Many people use a personal computer every day, but few know what is Windows - a word that has become a household word in our language. To answer this question correctly can be very few. I will try to bring some clarity. Windows - this is not just a collection of beautiful windows, pictures and puzzles. It is also not a part of the computer that you can not remove, replace, update - it is not inherent. Windows - an advanced operating system with a graphical user interface. What does this mean? Universal Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius, said that the operating system - is "a set of programs, which are always in the computer memory; organize the management of the machine and its interaction with the user." Indeed, Windows - this is actually a set of programs that controls the work of other programs, coordinates their activities. For example, Windows is deciding how to allocate memory between the programs, and it is Windows keeps track of programs to work with the same processor, hard drive, Internet access, etc. Windows - is a system that organizes interaction programs on a computer with each other and with the user, that is, to us, the people working at the computer. Thus, if the analogy to human society, the operating system in general and Windows in particular - is the big boss at the computer, distributing rights and powers of other programs. Why do people often, as they say "photocopies" of copy documents (in fact, of course, Xerox - is not the only manufacturer of copiers), draw an equal sign between the Windows operating system and the computer? The fact is that since the release of Windows 95, this operating system has a dominant position in the market. According to various estimates, from 80 to 99% of all personal computers use Windows as the primary system (we are not talking about a single segment - servers - on which Windows is much less common), and in Russia, where the "pirated" version is sold on nearly every corner for funny money, is not taken into account that Windows costs money, in what is clearly losing many of its competitors have long been free. Competitors lack. For example, a family of Linux and built on the basis of its operating systems. Enough of them, most are designed on the principle of "open source" (where any programmer can easily look and even the correct functionality of the system), as a rule - free. The fact is that the money comes from for the support, as correctly configure Linux is still much more complex than Windows, is considered the most "friendly" to the user. Windows is tied to a specific computer architecture - the so-called IBM PC-compatible. What does this mean? For example, a personal notebook Palm - this minicomputer, fits in the palm. He is not the IBM PC-compatible, so Windows does not work on it. But running a special on Palm OS - Palm OS. And in today's smartphones (cell phones, computers) is the most common - Symbian OS. Windows for these devices also have: Microsoft released a special version, which has to do with "desktop" only the name, the concept of design and interface. In short, «Windows are different." So you can not expect from a mobile phone with Windows that it will start a text editor Word. Speaking of Word, Excel and other programs that are in the Russian mentality is considered to be an integral part of Windows. Nothing like this - they are part of the popular office suite, Microsoft Office, which is sold and installed separately from Windows. Windows itself has a very kutsymi opportunities for real work, and all the additional software sold separately. Distributed as many jokes about Windows and its "buggy", ie unstable, unpredictable work. In part, this was the place to be in earlier versions, especially famous for errors 95, 98, ME version. Today, however, security, reliability and fault tolerance is highly valued, and the very Windows (for example, the version of XP SP2) - a thing very stable, we should try to make it "zaglyuchil." "Buggy", 99.9% of third-party software, users are misunderstood technical documents or have used undocumented features Windows, or simply use the software product from our mistakes. In short, Windows has nothing to do with it: to talk about its instability in this situation simply dishonest. Another thing - the "security holes", about which there is information at least once a month, they say, found a new vulnerability. In these Windows vulnerabilities are numerous, because it is a very complex system with millions of connections and conditions. A man can not think of everything scenarios, because hackers and find situations where the operating system is behaving inappropriately, "open".

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