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Nov 21, 2025 · Information system, an integrated set of components for collecting, storing, and processing data and for providing information and digital products. Many major companies are …

Nov 21, 2025 · Operating system, program that manages a computer’s resources, especially the allocation of those resources among other programs.

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Nov 14, 2025 · Microsoft Windows is a computer operating system (OS) developed by Microsoft Corporation to run personal computers (PCs). Featuring the first graphical user interface for …

Computer software is divided into two basic types—the operating system and application software. The operating system controls how the different parts of hardware work together. …

With the wide adoption of the Internet and the introduction of the World Wide Web in 1991 and of the first browser for accessing it in 1993, most e-commerce shifted to the Internet.

In 1969 a team led by computer scientists Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created the first version of UNIX on a PDP-7 minicomputer, which was chosen mainly because of Thompson’s …