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Revision as of 16:32, June 3, 2008
Microsoft Windows is an operating system produced and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. It is estimated that as of December 2007 [1] the Microsoft Windows family accounted for roughly 88% of operating system usage, with 73.4% belonging to the Windows XP family. Windows is used both as a desktop operating system and a server[2] operating system, and is intended for use with the Intel x86 family of processors.
Versions
The following are a list of releases of Microsoft Windows. While initially Windows was merely a graphical user interface extension to MS-DOS shell[3], it became a full operating system beginning with the release of Windows NT.
- Windows Seven
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP
- Windows 2000
- Windows ME
- Windows 98
- Windows NT
- Windows 3.x
- Windows 2.x
- Windows 1.0
External Links
References
- ↑ OS Statistics. Refsnes Data. Retrieved 29 January, 2008.
- ↑ Windows Server 2003 R2 Home. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 29 January, 2008.
- ↑ Windows History: Windows Desktop Timeline. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 29 January, 2008.