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Article: Playing the X Game: Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux: Is your OS worth an upgrade? (Inside Technology).
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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The next time you walk into a computer store, look around. See where the crowds are? Good. Now look for emptiest aisle in the store. That's it: the one with the operating system software.
Normally you don't think much about your personal computer's operating system (OS). Most of the time it sits quietly in the background acting as a data-traffic cop and providing needed services, such as printer support for a word-processing program or audio support for a game. The more efficient your computer's OS, the better your applications run.
This has been a busy year for OS upgrades. Microsoft Corp, (www .microsoft.com) unveiled Windows XP (at press time, only a ...