IT Terms tagged with Operating Systems

• .INI File
• 64-bit
• A+ Certification
• Abnormal End (ABEND)
• Access Control List (ACL)
• Access Control List (Microsoft) (ACL)
• Active Directory (AD)
• Active Server Pages (ASP pages)
• Activity Diagram
• Adaptive Packet Assembly (APA)
• Adobe AIR
• Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX)
• Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA)
• AirPlay
• AMD Virtualization (AMD-V)
• AMIBIOS
• Andrew File System (AFS)
• Android
• Android Device
• Android Froyo (Android 2.2)
• Android G1
• Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)
• Android Jelly Bean
• Android Operating System
• Android OS
• Android Platform
• Android Tablet
• Angel Operating System
• Anti-Virus Killer (AV Killer)
• Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT)
• Application Server
• Atomicity
• Attribute
• Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
• Autonomic Computing
• Azure Fabric Controller
• Azure Service Platform
• Back-End System
• Backdoor
• Backout Plan
• Backup and Recovery
• Bad Sector
• Bare Metal
• Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
• Batch File
• Baud (Bd)
• Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
• Binary Digit (bit)
• BIOS Rootkit
• Bitlocker
• Bits Per Second (bps)
• BlackBerry OS
• Blue Screen of Death (BSoD)
• Boot Disk
• Boot Sector
• Boot Sequence
• Bootstrap
• Bourne Shell (sh)
• British Thermal Unit (BTU)
• Bundled Software
• C Programming Language (C)
• Carnivore
• Charms Bar
• Chernobyl Virus
• Child Process
• Chipset
• Chrome Operating System (Chrome OS)
• Citrix XenServer
• Clean Install
• Clippy
• Clock Speed
• Clonezilla
• Cloud Operating System (Cloud OS)
• Cocoa Touch
• Cold Buffer
• Command (.CMD)
• Command Line
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Command Prompt
• Component Object Model+ (COM+)
• Connected Standby
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Control Panel
• Control Program For Microcomputers (CP/M)
• Control-Alt-Delete
• Core Dump
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Criticality Level
• Customer Information Control System (CICS)
• Dalvik
• Data Center Management
• DB2
• Debian GNU/Linux
• Debug
• Debugging
• Desktop Environment (DE)
• Desktop Mode
• Destructive Trojan
• Device Manager
• Dial-Up Connection
• Digital Dashboard
• Digital Dolly
• Directory Services
• Disk and Execution Monitor (Daemon)
• DiskPart
• Distribution
• Distro
• Dock
• Donationware
• Driver Development Kit (DDK)
• Electronic Medication Administration Records (eMAR)
• Emulation
• Encrypting File System (EFS)
• Enterprise Certified Netware Engineer (ECNE)
• Environment Variable
• Even Parity
• Event
• Executable (.EXE)
• Exokernel
• Extended System Configuration Data (ESCD)
• Fast User Switching
• Fatal Exception
• Fatware
• Fault Management
• Fault Tolerance
• Fedora
• File Explorer
• First Come, First Served (FCFS)
• Flexible Single-Master Operation (FSMO)
• Forward Error Correction (FEC)
• Fragmentation
• Frame
• FreeBSD
• Fuduntu
• Gammima
• Gesture Recognizer
• Gigabit (Gb)
• Gigabits Per Second (Gbps)
• Gingerbread
• GNU GRUB
• GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME)
• GNU Project
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Guest Operating System (Guest OS)
• Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
• Hardware Identification (HWID)
• Hardware Virtualization
• Headphone Virtualization
• Health Level Seven Clinical Document Architecture (HL7-CDA)
• Hexadecimal
• High-Level Assembler (HLASM)
• Host Operating System
• Hot Fix
• Hybrid Boot
• Hybrid Kernel
• Hypervisor
• IBM PC
• iDevice
• Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS)
• Incremental Backup
• Indigo
• Infinite Loop
• Information Architecture (IA)
• Information System (IS)
• Input/Output (I/O)
• Installation Restore Point
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Intelligent Input/Ouput (I2O)
• Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP)
• Internet Connection Firewall (ICF)
• iOS
• IRIX
• Isolated Storage
• J2EE Product Provider
• Jailbreak
• Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME)
• Java Foundation Classes (JFC)
• Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS)
• Job
• Job Control Language (JCL)
• Joli OS
• Just Enough Operating System (JeOS)
• Kernel
• Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
• Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM)
• Kilobyte (KB)
• Kriz Virus
• LAN Manager
• LAN Manager Hash (LANMAN Hash)
• Legacy Code
• Legacy System
• Lightweight Thread
• Linux
• Linux Console Terminal
• Linux Mint
• Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo Foundation)
• Lock Screen
• Logical Disk Manager
• Longitudinal Redundancy Check (LRC)
• Lotus Domino
• Mac OS (Classic)
• Mac OS X
• Mac OS X Lion
• Mac Terminal
• Macintosh Operating System (Mac OS)
• Mainframe
• Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
• Master Boot Record (MBR)
• Media Layer
• Megabit (Mb)
• Megabyte (MB)
• Megapixel (MP)
• Member Server
• Memory Management
• Menu Bar
• Metro
• Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS)
• Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)
• Microsoft Hyper-V (MS Hyper V)
• Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP)
• Microsoft Secure Boot
• Microsoft Windows
• MinWin
• Mobile Operating System (Mobile OS)
• Monolithic Kernel
• Mountain Lion
• Multi-Processing
• Multitasking
• Multithreading
• Named User License
• Neo FreeRunner
• NetBeans
• Network Access Server (NAS)
• Network File System (NFS)
• Network Map
• Network Operating System (NOS)
• Network PC (Net PC)
• New Technology File System (NTFS)
• Non Return to Zero Inverted (NRZI)
• Open Enterprise Server (OES)
• Open Productivity and Connectivity Specification (OPC Specification)
• Open Source
• Open Transport
• Openmoko
• OpenSUSE
• Operating System (OS)
• Operating System Power Management (OSPM)
• Operating System Security (OS Security)
• Operating System Virtualization (OS Virtualization)
• Operational Support System (OSS)
• Parallel Processing
• Paravirtualized Operating System
• Partition
• Patch Tuesday
• Peppermint
• Peripheral Component Interconnect Express - PCI Express (PCI-E)
• Platform
• Platform Agnostic
• Plug and Play (PnP)
• Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)
• Port Address Translation (PAT)
• PowerShell
• Pre-Emption
• Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
• Preemptive Multitasking
• Problem Program
• Program Layer
• Pulsing Zombie
• R/3 Client/Server Application
• Real-Time Communications (RTC)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Red Screen of Death
• Remote Access Server (RAS)
• Remote Desktop
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
• Resilient File System (ReFS)
• Resolution
• Restore Point
• Rich Internet Application (RIA)
• RiscPC
• Robust File Copy (Robocopy)
• Rosetta
• Round Robin
• Route File
• Router Firmware
• Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)
• Samsung Bada
• SAP Integration Server (SAP IS)
• Sasser Worm
• Scalable Processor Architecture (SPARC)
• ScanDisk
• Screen Scraping
• Server Intelligent Storage (SIS)
• Shared Resources
• Shell
• Single Point of Failure (SPOF)
• Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Single Unix Specification
• Sliding Window
• Slimeware
• Software Hang
• Solaris
• Spooling
• Stack Smashing
• Staggered Spin-Up
• Standard Operating Environment (SOE)
• Storage Robot
• Stress Testing
• Structured System Analysis and Design Method (SSADM)
• Superbill
• Supervisor Call
• Swap File
• Symbian
• Symbian 3
• Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)
• System Administrator (SA)
• System Checkpoint
• System Software
• Tablet
• Task Manager
• Taskbar
• Telecommunications Closet (TC)
• Thread
• Tiger
• Title Bar
• Token Ring Network
• Trusted PC (TC)
• Tunneling Virus
• Ubuntu
• Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC)
• Undelete
• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
• Uninstaller
• Unity
• UNIX
• Unix
• UNIX 03
• UNIX 93
• UNIX 95
• UNIX 98
• Upgrade (UPG)
• Use Case
• Usenet Death Penalty (UDP)
• User Agent (UA)
• User Agent Server (UAS)
• User Interface (UI)
• Vertical Scalability
• Vi
• Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM)
• Virtual Device Driver (VxD)
• Virtual Machine (VM)
• Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
• Virtual Private Server (VPS)
• Virtualization
• VMware Workstation
• Vocabulary Management Solution (VMS)
• Volume Boot Record (VBR)
• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
• Vulcan Nerve Pinch
• Vulnerability Scanning
• VxWorks
• Wallpaper
• Watchdog Timer (WDT)
• WebOS
• Weenix
• Widget
• Window Manager
• Windows 2000 (W2K)
• Windows 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant
• Windows Azure
• Windows CE
• Windows Clustering
• Windows Embedded
• Windows File Protection (WFP)
• Windows Image Management (WIM)
• Windows Imaging Format (WIF)
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
• Windows Mango
• Windows Mobile
• Windows on ARM (WOA)
• Windows Phone 7
• Windows RT
• Windows Server
• Windows To Go
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• WinTel
• X Terminal
• X Window System
• X.Org Server
• x86 Architecture
• Xen Hypervisor
• Xerox Network Systems (XNS)
• Zero Administration for Windows (ZAW)
• Zero-Bit Insertion
• Zero-Day Threat