Question

Study PC operating system such as windows and linux etc and mobile operating system such as Android and iOS, find out whether there are functions and features that are provided in PC OS but not in mobile OS, and if there is any, analyze why these functions and features are not provided by these mobile OS. In your opinion for the future development will PC operating system and mobile operating system be the same or different? Give the details.

Answer 1

The main difference between these two operating systems is the CPU architecture. In mobile OS, ARM is used and in PC OS x64 is used. Mobile OS given more importance to power saving as compared to PC OS.

Companies such as Microsoft are trying to make both the cores the same. Both the operating systems also use different kernels. For future advancements, if schedulers are to be considered with more advanced features, it will help optimize the power in PC OS. In mobile OS, future advancements could be more related to storing previous kernel messages for access in critical times.

Mobile OS will use automation and infrared transmission in the coming future. Near field communication is also going to be an interactive service due to the customer screens and alternate keyboards.

For the PCs, the operating system is going to have a broad software range available.

One of the similarities in both the operating systems that will benefit both is the power to navigate while utilizing storage along with executing commands.