What is preemptive multitasking?

Question

What is preemptive multitasking? After googling it I couldn\'t find an answer can someone help me?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemption_(computing)

Read the Wikipedia article. Think of it this way, it is a way to allow you to run many different programs at once without each program needing to have been written to give up the processor's time - the OS handles it. The idea is that each process is "preempted" at some point.