Although there are three well-known operating systems, the most common are Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Discuss the similarities and differences between these two systems.

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Answer 1

Windows was developed by Microsoft vs MAC OS was developed by Apple computers

Windows was created around 1985 vs MAC OS around 2001

Windows was designed for personal computers for all corporation’s vs Mac OS was design to work on Apple computers

Windows computer architectures supported by IA-32, x86, IA-64, ARM, Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC vs Apple architecture supported: x86-64, IA-32, and Power PC

Windows supports NTFS, FAT, UDF, HFS+, FATX and HFS vs Apple supports HFS+, APFS, HFS, UFS, AFP, ISO, FAT, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS, FTP, WebDav and ZFS.

Both Kernel type is Hybrid with modules

Windows uses MSI for installation vs Apple uses MacOS

Windows uses native APIs, Win32 and NT API vs Apple uses native API are Carbon, Cocoa, Java, and BSD-POSIX

The both use User Graphic Interface

The new versions of Windows and Apple has built-in voice recognition

Windows is mostly used for business, gaming vs MacOS is used for business applications and graphics

Windows can be installed on any PC, Servers vs MacOS was built to install on Apple supported systems