An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is part of ...

We have already considered the multi-tasking concept – multiple quasi-independent programs apparently running at the same time, under the control of an operating system. Before we look at tasks in ...

Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios. (Thanks to ZDNet blogger @Manan for the ...