How to Use operating system in a Sentence

operating system

noun
  • The 11-inch LCD screen is sharp, and the operating system is fun to use.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
  • About one third of the ROM software is the operating system.
    IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
  • Well, part of it is surely the 30-plus years of building each new version of the operating system on top of the old one.
    Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 21 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Some people just don’t want to learn how to use a new operating system.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 26 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • This is in spite of the fact that both automakers employ the same operating system.
    Benjamin Hunting, Car and Driver, 9 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Here's what to know about Sequoia, the new Mac operating system.
    Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
  • If your operating system isn’t quite up to date, Jumbo prompts to take care of that problem.
    PCMAG, 15 May 2024
  • 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
  • While Google makes the basics of the Android operating system, everyone else likes to put their own spin on it.
    Wired, 2 Aug. 2022
  • 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 a full list of all the top features of Apple's latest operating system, make sure to also check out our iOS 17 roundup.
    Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 2 May 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
  • Specifically, the voice seemed aligned with her voice in the film Her, which follows a man that falls in love with the female voice of his computer’s operating system.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 May 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 Pixel Watch uses Google's Wear 3 operating system, which launched last year.
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
  • More control of apps Siri in iOS 18 is getting its hooks deeper into the operating system.
    David Nield, Popular Science, 19 June 2024
  • 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
  • The same is true if your phone maker is on good terms with that company that made your computer's operating system.
    Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Apple eventually took that same step, locking down its macOS operating system in 2020 so that developers could no longer get access to the kernel.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 23 July 2024

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