MICROSOFT WINDOWS

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Katherine Angela Dy Mich Bonior Miguel Pillas Ace Obedencia Martin Batungbakal Jobelle Cantillan

What is Microsoft Windows?

is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft. Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces

What is Microsoft Windows?

Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984. As of October 2009, Windows had approximately 90% of the market share of the client operating systems for usage on the Internet

History

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1. Windows 1.0 was the first version of Windows launched. Windows 1.0 is a 16bit graphical operating environment, developed by Microsoft and released on 20 November 1985. 2. Windows 2.0 is a 16-bit Microsoft Windows GUI-based operating environment that was released on December 9, 1987 and is the sequel to Windows 1.0.

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3. Less than a year after the release of Windows 2.0, Windows/286 2.10 and Windows/386 2.10 were released on May 27, 1988. Windows 2.1x is a family of Microsoft Windows graphical user interface-basedoperating environments. 4. Windows 3.0, an operating environment, is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, and was released on 22 May 1990.

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5. The series began with Windows 3.1, which was first sold during March 1992 as a successor to Windows 3.0. Windows 3.1x is a series of 16-bit operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers. 6. Windows 95 is a consumeroriented graphical user interfacebased operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft

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7. Windows 98 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on 15 May 1998 and to retail on 25 June 1998. 8. Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me is a graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft, and was the last operating system released in the Windows 9x series.

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9. Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. 10. Microsoft Windows CE (now officially known as Windows Embedded Compact and previously also known as Windows Embedded CE ,

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and sometimes abbreviated WinCE) is an operating system developed by Microsoft for embedded systems. Windows CE is a distinct operating system and kernel, rather than a trimmed-down version of desktop Windows. 11. Windows Phone (previously Windows Phone 7 Series) is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform.

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Windows 8, the successor to Windows 7, is currently in development. Microsoft has posted a blog entry in Dutch on October 22, 2010 hinting that Windows 8 will be released in 2 years.