By building the USB stack into Honeycomb, the platform now gets USB host abilities and tablets running Honeycomb now have
operating system level - support for managing USB peripherals — including gamepads, joysticks, and storage devices — directly.
This is all great news, but there is one catch: Android 3.1 still isn't intended, at
the operating system level, for managing external storage devices.
Specifically Valve are intent on aiming the SteamOS at gamers, claiming that they've achieved a significant increase in graphics processing and more: «In SteamOS, we have achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing, and we're now targeting audio performance and reductions in input latency at
the operating system level.
With Nintendo apparently heavily increasing Switch production in 2018 then there's a chance that this could happen at that point, but in the meantime there's little that can be done apart from trying to make it harder from
an operating system level for further hacks to be engineered.
It also limits the ability to update security and other essential services at
the operating system level.
Traditionally, most Android components have been baked in at
the operating system level.
Meanwhile, Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore give developers an alternative way to build AR into their own apps at
the operating system level rather than having to piggyback on Facebook.
VPNs are set up at
the operating system level, and the VPN connection captures the entire network connection of the device it is configured on.
This is a particularly secure option because Lenovo has opted for «Match - in - Sensor» technology whereby fingerprint data is isolated on a System - on - Chip (SoC) and therefore can't be hacked at
the operating system level.
It's great to see plenty of attention given to them at
the operating system level!
This will limit its data usage from
the operating system level.
On top of giving it access to all the apps in the Google Play Store, Oreo offers support for features like picture - in - picture video at
an operating system level, not to mention the latest security updates.
This operating system level protection works no matter where the application or file comes from.
At
the operating system level, SmartScreen functions by sending information about every application you download and run to Microsoft's servers.
On
an operating system level, things run perfectly well.
Following the public disclosure of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in January, researchers at the College of William and Mary, Carnegie Mellon University, UC Riverside, and Binghamton University have published BranchScope (PDF link), a vulnerability that leverages the speculative execution capabilities found in practically every modern processor to circumvent memory protections implemented in the hardware and
operating system level.