• Question: How many popular operating systems are in use today?

    Asked by fund1bake on 31 May 2024.
    • Photo: Neil Barnby

      Neil Barnby answered on 31 May 2024:


      Currently there are 5 popular operating systems and these are Windows, Linux, Apple OS, Google Android OS and Apple iOS.

    • Photo: Tim Chapman

      Tim Chapman answered on 4 Jun 2024:


      Whilst there are 5 popular operating systems, the variations around each one differs dramatically. Depending on the organisation for example, you can still see Windows 8, Windows, 10 and Windows 11 and Windows Server variants seem to be even greater depending on the applications they are running as some of these may be legacy that cannot be removed but will not run on the newer versions.

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