Task1 (3) - comparison of three operating system
Components Window 7 Window 8 Ubunutu 12.04
Security It has better firewall. It also support bit locker drive encryption, which encrypt window hard disk to keep documents and passwords as well.
Also help to protect desktop against viruses and other malware with Microsoft security essential.
It also supports parent’s control which is also an essential part. It supports family safety settings, which means with the help of this we can keep track of our kids. Like of internet users and we can also make access of certain websites only.
In addition to this window 8 also update automatically.
It also avoids scams with its new phishing filter. And a malware as well that an anti malware software
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Cost Microsoft Windows 7 Home premium is for 150$. It depends upon which version you want. The average price of the window 8 is around 130 NZD. The lowest price is 125 NZD and the highest is the 170 NZD which is affordable for all the users who want this operating system. Ubunutu is free of coast. We can simply download it from ubnutu.com.
Hardware platform This window support AMD/Intel pc. This window also support AMD/Intel pc. The hardware platform for ubunutu is uname-i.
Use Home version is for home purposes or for normally users. In addition to this professional is for professions like doctors and lawyers. And one more is enterprise. This is for the companies or for the industrial uses. The versions of window 8 are also similar like there are also home, professional and enterprises uses. It is an open source so we can use it usually and in addition to this it is also portable.
Code size Window 7 has million of the codes of lines. For the window 7 the codes of lines are approx. 40 million which is reduced by vista. Window 8 has almost 80 million lines of codes. For this version it has 15 million codes of