On the other hand, Web-based newspapers such as CNET use the term in both editorial and journalistic contexts, for example " Windows Live to Get Censorware.

* On a computer running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix running the X Window System, clicking the secondary mouse button ( usually the right button ) opens a context menu for the region that is under the mouse pointer.

On 25 June 1998, Microsoft released Windows 98 ( codenamed Memphis ).

On 25 August 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP ( codenamed " Whistler ").

On 25 April 2003 Microsoft launched Windows Server 2003, a notable update to Windows 2000 Server encompassing many new security features, a new " Manage Your Server " wizard that simplifies configuring a machine for specific roles, and improved performance.

On 25 April 2005, Microsoft released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003, x64 Editions in Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter SKUs.

On the Building Windows 8 blog, it was announced that a computer running Windows 8 can boot up much faster than Windows 7.

On the various Microsoft Windows platforms, command-line tools for development are seldom used.

* On modern systems, Mac OS X Snow Leopard represents a 65, 536 byte file as " 66 KB ", rounding to the nearest 1000, while Microsoft Windows 7 would divide by 1024 and represent this as " 64 KB ".

On Microsoft Windows, it appears that the timing of commands to hardware is not exact.

On the other hand IBM donated Object REXX for Windows and OS / 2 to the Open Object REXX project maintained by the REXX Language Association on Sourceforge.

On March 11, 1997, id Software released WinQuake, a version of the non-OpenGL engine designed to run under Microsoft Windows ; the original Quake had been written for DOS, allowing for launch from Windows 95, but could not run under Windows NT-based operating systems because it required direct access to hardware.

On June 15, 2009, THQ released Red Faction: Guerrilla, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows.

On Microsoft Windows, a process that accesses invalid memory receives the STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception.

On Microsoft Windows, SDL uses a GDI backend by default.

On Microsoft Windows operating systems it is named.

On October 27, 1998, Microsoft announced that the name of the final version of the operating system would be Windows 2000, a name which referred to its projected release date.

On or shortly before February 12, 2004, " portions of the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4. 0 source code were illegally made available on the Internet.

On personal computers, the key can be used by software in several different ways, such as to switch between multiple login sessions, to terminate a program, or to interrupt a modem connection.

On the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 computers, the Break is accessed by pressing Space.

On personal computers and small workstations, the CPU is housed in a single silicon chip called a microprocessor.

On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University computer science graduate student, unleashed what became known as the Morris worm, disrupting an estimated 10 % of the computers then on the Internet and prompting the formation of the CERT Coordination Center and Phage mailing list.

On Apple Macintosh computers, there are keyboard shortcuts for the most common diacritics ; Option-e followed by a vowel places an acute accent, Option-u followed by a vowel gives an umlaut, option-c gives a cedilla, etc.

On computers, the availability of code pages determines whether one can use certain diacritics.

On the Apple II, unlike modern computers that use standardized device drivers to manage device communications, the operating system directly controlled the step motor that moves the floppy drive head, and also directly interpreted the raw data called nibbles read from each track to find the data sectors.

On Atari 8-bit computers, the most common protection method was via " bad sectors ".

On 7 April 1986 Amstrad announced it had bought from Sinclair Research "... the worldwide rights to sell and manufacture all existing and future Sinclair computers and computer products, together with the Sinclair brand name and those intellectual property rights where they relate to computers and computer related products.

On meters that allow interfacing with computers, optical isolation may protect attached equipment against high voltage in the measured circuit.

On modern general purpose computers, this can take tens of seconds and typically involves performing power-on self-test, locating and initializing peripheral devices, and then finding, loading and starting an operating system.

On shared computers, whether time-sharing, batch processing, or server systems, core dumps allow off-line debugging of the operating system, so that the system can go back into operation immediately.

On the other hand, laptop computers offer portability that desktop systems can not due to their small form factor.

On the first computers, with no operating system, every program needed the full hardware specification to run correctly and perform standard tasks, and its own drivers for peripheral devices like printers and punched paper card readers.

On computers and data links using 8-bit bytes this left the top bit of each Byte free for use as a parity, flag bit, or meta data control bit.

On January 12, 2010, Google reported a large cyber attack on its computers and corporate infrastructure that began a month earlier, which included accessing two Gmail accounts and the theft of Google's intellectual property.

On computers running Mac OS X, disk images are now ubiquitous for software downloads, typically downloaded with a web browser.

On personal computers, SLIP has been largely replaced by the Point-to-Point Protocol ( PPP ), which is better engineered, has more features and does not require its IP address configuration to be set before it is established.

On the second day of the contest, when users were allowed to physically interact with the computers ( the prior day permitted only network attacks ), Charlie Miller compromised Mac OS X through an unpatched vulnerability of the PCRE library used by Safari.

On present-day computers, performance is determined more by cache and CPU pipeline considerations than by strict operation counts, and a slight difference in arithmetic cost is unlikely to be significant.

On September 4, 2008, Sony announced a worldwide voluntary product inspection and rework program for TZ-series notebook computers manufactured since June 2007.

On affected Vaio notebook computers, the cooling fan will start to make an unusual noise.

On the other hand, it is argued that as chess enters certain endgames, databases must be employed by computers to deal with added complexities.