Satu Sistem Operasi untuk Berbagai Perangkat Digital

The operating system is like the soul that resides in a digital device. Every gadget, whether cell phones, tablet computers, laptops, or desktops, must have a platform - a means to run various applications.
For mobile devices, there are some operating system name that is commonly known. They are Google's Android, Nokia Symbian, Apple's IOS, and QNX BlackBerry from Research In Motion (RIM), Samsung Bada, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and others.
Various platforms it has its own segment. There is a device that only works for desktop computers, mobile phones, and tablets. But now, Apple, Microsoft, and Google, introducing an operating system that could work in a variety of mobile devices.
Last Wednesday, Google released the Android 4.0 platform or Ice Cream Sandwich which runs on a smart phone Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
Senior Vice President of Mobile Business Google's Andy Rubin, says that this OS can work on mobile phones and tablets and other mobile devices.
"Ice Cream Sandwich shows innovation that can work on Android phones and tablets with features that exist in it," Rubin said in the launch of Galaxy Nexus in Hong Kong.
Some of the features that distinguishes this platform than its predecessor, among others, a new typeface named Roboto; adjustment of the size of the widget; categorization of applications in a single folder; up to capture images even though the phone is in locked position.
Unfortunately, Google has not shown how the performance of Android Ice Cream Sandwich on a tablet computer.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is building Windows 8 as an operating system that can run on various devices that use a mouse and keyboard, such as desktop computers, laptops, and tablet computers. Windows 8 is not for mobile phones.
"This reinvention of Windows," said Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Microsoft Windows Live Division, when it launched Windows 8 in Anaheim, USA, June.
Comes with a look of "Metro", Windows 8 remove the small icons that always appear on the screen before Windows OS and replaced with a colorful box.
Bill Gates founded the company which is buried 10 Internet Explorer browser engine with better performance than previous generations.
Sinofsky said this platform promises faster performance by reducing memory footprint. As a result, the required boot time is shorter, less than 8 seconds.