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This research paper presents analysis of operating system (O.S) used in computers in higher education institutions (HEI). Regular updating and upgrading to higher version of system software is necessary to ensure the data security and helps to avoid security threats. For this research data is collected through online; data is collected for from 81 higher education institutions of Karnataka, India. In this analysis it is observed that most HEIs are not updating technology and training methods in their premises. We also found that most of the institutions where computer science course is not offered they do not aware of open source software and they think that windows is the only operating system available for desktop computers. By this research we found that only few higher education institutions which offer computer science and computer application courses are recently upgrading their systems to higher versions due to syllabus changes, but still upgrading to newer versions of operating system is not properly managed. From the collected data we could analyse that Windows is most commonly used operating system and Linux or Ubuntu is second most commonly used operating system and no other operating systems are used in any higher education institutions in Karnataka University affiliated colleges.