SCL 3

SCL Question 3 (a)

Question:

Nowadays, even smart phones have their own unique operating systems. Draw a table of comparison between the most popular OS in smart phones, which are Android and Windows 8.

Android versus Windows 8

Android	Aspects	Windows 8
Google	Company of developer	Microsoft
Open source software	Source model	Closed source software
Unix-like	OS family	Windows
2008	First released	2010
Apache License 2.0 Linux kernel patches under GNU GPL v2	License	Commercial proprietary software
Graphical, which is multi-touch	Default user interface	Graphical, which is Metro UI
Updates are provided by different parties in the consortium	Updates	Updates are only done by Microsoft
Created by an open community of developers	Applications	Created by tie up companies and Microsoft
Over 700,000 applications	Number of applications	Limited number of applications
Being an open source, the benefit of Android is that many developers can develop content, applications and games for Android. The applications in the Android App Market which is the Google Play are mostly free for downloading. Android is also popular because of constant and frequents updates that are available by Google.	Other special key features and benefits	Windows 8 phone is developed by the company Microsoft Corporation and protected by copyright. New key features include a whole new interface, text input by an on-screen virtual keyboard, threads messaging, Internet Explorer browser, Windows Phone App and Windows Phone Store.