operating system
as defined in Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17…, Article 3, point (38) (Definitions)
software, which, inter alia, handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running including a graphical user interface, regardless of whether such software is an integral part of consumer general purpose computer hardware, or constitutes free-standing software intended to be run on consumer general purpose computer hardware, but excluding an operating system loader, basic input/output system, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system
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Also defined in
- DMA 32022R1925, Article 2, point (10)
a system software that controls the basic functions of the hardware or software and enables software applications to run on it;