Operating Systems: What happen in 2015?
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The document discusses several operating system releases from 2015 including: - Windows 10 Threshold released on July 29th 2015 which returned the Start button and introduced Cortana integration. - iOS 9 released on September 16th 2015 focused on optimizations and multitasking features while introducing a new News app. - OS X El Capitan released on September 30th 2015 focused on performance and security while adding multi-touch gestures. - Android Marshmallow released on October 5th 2015 focused on user experience improvements while introducing new permissions and assistant APIs.
Operating Systems: What happen in 2015?
- 2. A *fairly* small release, some VM clean-ups The unification of the PROTNONE and NUMA handling for page tables. 12th April 2015 Some people advocated the 4.0 version number, to eventually see 4.1.15 - because "that was the version of Linux SkyNet used for the T-800 Terminator".
- 3. Version Original release date Current Version Support Model 4.0 12 April 2015 4.0.9 Maintained from April 2015 to July 2015 4.1 22 June 2015 4.1.15 Maintained from July 2015 to September 2017 4.2 30 August 2015 4.2.8 Maintained from August 2015 to December 2015 4.3 1 November 2015 4.3.3 Supported version 4.4 10 January 2016 4.4 Maintained from January 2016 to February 2018
- 4. 29th July 2015 • Return of ‘Start’ button, a virtual desktop system, integration with Windows Phone • Device dependent interface Incorporates Microsoft's intelligent personal assistant Cortana Threshold
- 5. Focuses less on new features and more on under- the-hood optimizations, as well as battery improvements. iOS 9 also adds a number of features to the iPad to improve productivity. These include Slide Over, Split View, and Picture in Picture, for enhanced multitasking. 16th September 2015 iOS 9 includes a new News app which displays news from sources such as The New York Times, CNN, Wired, and ESPN Monarch
- 6. Focuses mainly on performance, stability and security. Adds multi-touch gestures to applications like Mail and Messages 30th September 2015 Has a new security feature called System Integrity Protection (SIP, aka "rootless") that protects system processes, files and folders from being tampered with. El Capitan
- 7. Marshmallow focuses on improving the overall user experience of the previous version, introducing a new permissions architecture, new APIs for contextual assistants and a new power management system. 5th October 2015 A new "Assist" API allows information from a currently-opened app to be sent to a designated "assistant" application for analysis and processing. Marshmallow