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The Operating Systems Of A Computer Operating System

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The Operating Systems
A computer operating system is an essential parts of every forensic laboratory. A Forensic lab should have current licensing agreements with the vendor software that it uses. While keeping legacy operating systems license renewal extended for the life of the system used.
Team Andromeda will implement multiple operating systems within the forensic lab environment. The Operating Systems that the lab will deploy are the Windows OS, Linux and Apple Mac Operating systems. These three operating system will provide the basic operating system environment to support the software package that we plan on using. Within each operating systems presented there will be prior version used to run out of spec hardware that may currently be in use. Following is a brief summary of each of the operating systems and its purpose.
Windows
Microsoft Windows operating system is the standard operating used on PC’s by professional in the private and public sector. Windows has been in existence since its first commercial release in 1985 of Microsoft Windows 1.0. Windows has continued to be major operating system used by millions all around the world for its ease of use and its oversimplified intuitive interface.
The lab will have four PC”s running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. The graph below is Windows Life cycle sheet displaying the current support Microsoft will provide to the customer market.
The Microsoft Windows Server
To support the Window

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