Sunday 8 September 2013

SCL 3 (QUESTION NO.2) : OPERATING SYSTEM AND FILE MANAGEMENT

COMPARISON OS(OPERATING SYSTEM) BETWEEN ANDROID AND WINDOWS 8


ANDROID
COMPARISION
WINDOWS 8
Based on direct manipulation.This is designed to be immediate and provides a fluid touch interface.Internal hardware such as gryroscopes and proximity are used by some application to respond to additional user actions.
Interface
Based on Microsoft’s Metro design language and uses a start screen similar to the windows phone  as the primary means of launching applications.Start screen as form of multi-tasking can snapped other application to the side of screen.
With the permissions system and sandboxing,many of applications installed in proper way.Means that,before installing process started,all permission displayed so that the user can choose to accept or refuse them.
Security and Privacy
There are two authentication methods tailored towards touchescreens which is PINs and picture password.Addition of antivirus capabilities to windows defender which is SmartScreen can filtering integrated into the desktop and support the Secure Boot functionality and defends against virus and malware  infecting boot process.
Apache License 2.0 Linux kernel patches under GNU GPL v2
License
Properietary commercial software
Monolithic
(Modified Linux kernel)
Kernel type
Hybrid












-Contributed by Mohd Helmi Rashid (A1300489)-                                   

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