Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In computer software, an operating environment usually refers to a GUI front-end on top of an operating system. A well-known operating environment is Microsoft Windows 3.11 and its predecessors. Other operating environments include KDE, FVVM and other Linux front-ends. Most operating systems today include the operating environment, and term has become somewhat antiquated. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.