RUNNING HEAD: SWITCHING PRODUCTS        9
Switching Products
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Abstract
This essay put down the path of technology in our everyday life. How the technology is evolving each day and how it is changing our usage for the technologies such as hardware or software. Mobile phone in the past decade has changed a lot, and a lot of new features are added almost every six months. This essay will give an overview of how fast we switch to new products and what are the requirements for it.
Keywords: Hardware, Software, operating system
Introduction
2-5 Years earlier the first technological product (hardware category) that we use to use then not now, comes into mind is iPod. Television to certain extent as the young adults of our generation prefers entertainment on their tablets and Pcs and mobile phones with utmost privacy and the control to choose whatever they want to watch according to their mood at that very particular moment. And in digital Software Platform Windows xp, Windows 7 are gone by the time, as more powerful windows has taken their places in computing language world. Social media website Orkut use to be trending in the beginning of this millennium but soon got ran over by other exciting social media platforms as well.
Hardware Category-
Product- IPod
Manufacturer- Apple Industries
Descriptive features- The original iPod from Apple comes with an MP3 player that is portable, along with a combination of a tiny hard drive, "Scroll Wheel" comes with an one handed easy activity operation, easy-to-use, a simple, hand based operating system based upon slick Mac and Pixo OS 2.1, application software -- iTunes ,which makes it easier to manage individuals' music collection rather than the Mac the iPod is way much simpler to handle.
The original Apple iPod features a hard drive of 5 GB and in addition an option for 10 GB was available post March, 2002 is capable of having 1000 160-Kbps MP3 format files or on the 10 GB drive 2000, a massive output amplifier with 60-mW, a standard 3.5-mm earphone jack and a FireWire port in an ultra-sleek iBook white along with stainless steel case and on the back, a 2-inch white backlit LCD display. The battery life is expected to be 10 hours (Clayton, 2017).
Software Category-
Product- Windows Xp
Manufacturer- Microsoft Corporation
Descriptive features- Windows XP is the  operating system for computers made by Microsoft belonging to a part of the operating system family of Windows NT and succeeded the Windows Me and windows 2000; the 2000 for the businesses and Windows Me for users at home. It got out to the department of manufacturing on August, 2001, and overall released for market to retail in October, 2001.
Development stage of Windows XP starts in the later stages 1990 with the code name "Neptune", an operating system built for Windows NT kernel that was previously intended particularly for mainstream customers user group (Wilson, 2015). An up-to-date version of the Windows 2000 was initially planned for the organization market for the ease of handling business organisations projects; however, in the month of January 2000, two of the projects were shut down in the favour of an single Operating System with codename "Whistler", that would work as the single Operating System stage for both business and customers/consumer markets (Hiner, 2002). As such, the Windows XP by Microsoft was the initial customer edition of Windows was not based upon MS-DOS.
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