A Practical Approach: Working With Windows

An Operating System (OS) is an interface between a computer user and computer hardware. An operating system is a software which performs all the basic tasks like file management memory management process management.The server operating system or server OS is the software layer on top of which other software programs or applications can run on the server hardware. Server operating systems help enable and facilitate typical server roles such as Web server mail server file server database server application server and print server.A server operating system also called a server OS is an operating system specifically designed to run on servers which are specialized computers that operate within a client/server architecture to serve the requests of client computers on the network.