How to Use operating system in a Sentence

operating system

noun
  • About one third of the ROM software is the operating system.
    IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
  • Here are the steps for Android 13, the latest version of the operating system.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • At the heart of your phone is its operating system (or platform).
    Ben Gottesman, PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The latest version of the iPhone’s operating system is packed with scores of new features big and small.
    Michael Grothaus, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The device runs an easy-to-use operating system called SteamOS 3.
    Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The first was to get an SD card prepared with the operating system and the Raspberry Shake software.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2023
  • There are easy ways to disable these functions in the settings on iPhones and Androids that run on the Google operating system.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The development team, which had started in the videogaming group, was moved to the Windows operating system group, then to the cloud team.
    Aaron Tilley, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Helsing is not the first company to try to build an operating system for war.
    Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • Your rig needs at least the Windows 10 operating system, too.
    Chris Stobing, PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
  • When open-source software was used for things like PC operating systems, this lack of control wasn’t much of a problem.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • For the start-up to succeed, people will need to learn a new operating system, called Cosmos, and be open to getting new phone numbers for the device.
    Photographs and Videos By Kelsey McClellan, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • So its next best option is to create a whole new operating system, one that replaces the smartphone.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Software Samsung’s watches all use its in-house Tizen operating system, which hasn’t changed much in the past few years.
    Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2023
  • If the operating system has been out for over three to four months, the hope is that Apple developers have addressed any bugs that have caused problems.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Apple is set to release iOS 16.2 next week, as the company has just seeded the RC version of this operating system.
    José Adorno, BGR, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The epigenome, a kind of cellular operating system, regulates which genes are turned on, or expressed, and which turned off, or not expressed.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Roku is the No. 1 streaming operating system in the U.S., with a 33% market share, executives said.
    Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Then the whole desktop operating system market would be powered by the same large language model.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Apple lovers can also look forward to live voicemails with the new operating system.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • In that case, my work laptop wasn’t running an operating system that supports passkeys.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The company is also expected to unveil the launch dates for its new operating system for all of its devices, dubbed iOS 17.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2023
  • How so? Lauren Goode: Well, overseas, Android is the most dominant operating system in the world.
    Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Pushing the controller’s orange Backbone button while the One is connected to your phone will open up the Backbone app, which looks like an operating system.
    Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The film cuts abruptly to the desktop of the Microsoft Windows operating system — the two-dimensional green hills against an eternal clear blue sky.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
  • So, even though Apple doesn’t sell it anymore, its users still can take advantage of all the apps and services available for the company’s set-top box operating system.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The creators of Linux, an open-source operating system, could have easily released a pay-walled product.
    Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • It’s that time of the year again when WhatsApp will stop working on older operating system versions that still power certain iPhones and Android devices.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The incursions set in motion a shutdown to thwart whatever was worming its way through the county’s operating system.
    Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In 2012, a leap second glitched a server’s Linux operating system and knocked out Reddit at midnight.
    Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2023

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