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Breaking the Window

Breaking the Window. Third Party Operating Systems & their Impact - Rough By Kevin Feldhaus. Thesis.

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Breaking the Window

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  1. Breaking the Window Third Party Operating Systems & their Impact - Rough By Kevin Feldhaus

  2. Thesis • Since 1989, Microsoft has held a monopoly in the operating system market. The only competitor anyone knows at all is Apple, who even then holds a small share in the market. In this market, third party competitors are beaten to the ground and forgotten. Because of this, my project is intended to cover the "little guys," the people who tried to break in to the market but couldn't (and in rare cases, could). I shall provide info on the third party competitors in this market, such as companies like Be Inc., IBM and even small-time hobbyists like LinusTorvalds, creator of Linux.

  3. Mac OS/OS X • 1984 - predates Windows 1.0 by 1 year (1985). The first major operating system, Mac OS was discontinued after 1999 and was replaced with Mac OS X. Mac OS X is currently the only truly major competitor against Windows.

  4. OS/2 • Microsoft worked with IBM to create OS/2, but abandoned it after version 1, making OS/2 the next major third party OS: OS/2 was widely used by banks worldwide. As said by Bill Gates himself: "Let's be serious.... Name a bank that didn't use OS/2." OS/2 was discontinued in 2001 after the release of version 4.52 and lives on in the OS eComStation.

  5. BeOS • In 1990,Jean Louis Gassée and Steve Sakoman left Apple to create their own computer. With others who left Apple, they founded Be Inc. in 1991 and began work on BeOS. In 1996, it saw its first release on a computer called the BeBox, which was discontinued the next year. After the failure of the BeBox it was redesigned to work with other architectures and lived until 2001, when Be Inc. was liquidated after a decade in business. It lives on in the open source OS Haiku. BeOS had massive strength in multimedia, supporting amny audio and video codecs as well as file formats.

  6. Linux • Linux began development in 1991 as a personal project of LinusTorvalds, at the time a student at the University of Helsinki. Version 0.01 was released to the Internet in September 1991, and Linux slowly gained a group of dedicated followers who were willing to defend the project, even against Andrew Tanenbaum, creator of MINIX (Linus's inspiration). Eventually, version 1.0 was released in 1994, and due to its nature (free software), users began to modify it, creating multiple types of "distributions," most importantly Red Hat Linux and Debian, the two major distributions in the world of Linux. These have been modified as well, from the ever famous Ubuntu distribution to strange distributions like Hannah Montana Linux (yes, I'm serious!). Linux is the best known free and 3rd party OS, and its recognition is well deserved. Linux currently holds 1% of the desktop market, and will slowly gain its own share once people realize its value.

  7. Solaris • Solaris began as SunOS in 1982. It was developed by Sun Microsystems and intended for their servers and workstations, but in 1987, out of a partnership with AT&T, they began to develop what would become Solaris, which eventually replaced SunOS in 1991. Solaris was ahead of its time, creating and inventing new features with every new release. Solaris, however, was never free until 2005, when version 10 (actually 2.10) was released. The next year, Sun set up the OpenSolaris project, effectively making Solaris open source, but it was shut down along with Sun when Sun was purchased by Oracle in 2010. The OpenSolaris project continues as OpenIndiana.

  8. AmigaOS • AmigaOS was originally built for Commodore's Amiga computers and was introduced in 1985. AmigaOS was never intended to be used on PCs, only on its own hardware, but when Commodore closed in 1994, the OS was developed by a company called Haage & Partner until version 3.9, when the license to the OS was turned over to Amiga Inc., who contracted development to Hyperion Entertainment, who then developed version 4. The OS only runs on PowerPC architectures.

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