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  2. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after the suit was reported on by the Seattle Times, Microsoft confirmed it was updating the GWX software once again to add more explicit options for opting out of a free Windows 10 upgrade; [374] [375] [372] the final notification was a full-screen pop-up window notifying users of the impending end of the free upgrade offer, and ...

  3. RTX (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    Generally, RTX supports 32-bit Windows; RTX64 supports 64-bit Windows. [ 6 ] The systems are used in different markets such as industrial automation , testbed and simulation , digital audio , digital video , aerospace military , medical devices , electrical grid , electricity generation , and other uses.

  4. Kernel Patch Protection - Wikipedia

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    The kernel connects the application software to the hardware of a computer. Kernel Patch Protection (KPP), informally known as PatchGuard, is a feature of 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows that prevents patching the kernel. It was first introduced in 2005 with the x64 editions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. [1]

  5. L4 microkernel family - Wikipedia

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    WrmOS [39] is a real-time operating system based on L4 microkernel. It has own implementations of kernel, standard libraries, and network stack, supporting ARM, SPARC, x86, and x86-64 architectures. There is the paravirtualized Linux kernel (w4linux [40]) working on WrmOS. Helios is a microkernel inspired by seL4. [41]

  6. Windows on Windows - Wikipedia

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    Many 16-bit Windows legacy programs can run without changes on newer 32-bit editions of Windows. The reason designers made this possible was to allow software developers time to remedy their software during the industry transition from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 and later, without restricting the ability for the operating system to be upgraded to a current version before all programs used by a ...

  7. ntoskrnl.exe - Wikipedia

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    In Windows XP and earlier, the Windows installation source ships four kernel image files to support uniprocessor systems, symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems, CPUs with PAE, and CPUs without PAE. Windows setup decides whether the system is uniprocessor or multiprocessor, then, installs both the PAE and non-PAE variants of the kernel image ...

  8. Windows Driver Frameworks - Wikipedia

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    Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF, formerly Windows Driver Foundation), is a set of Microsoft tools and libraries that aid in the creation of device drivers for Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows.

  9. Windows API - Wikipedia

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    For example, Win32 is the major version of Windows API that runs on 32-bit systems. The name, Windows API, collectively refers to all versions of this capability of Windows. Microsoft provides developer support via a software development kit, Microsoft Windows SDK, which includes documentation and tools for building software based on the ...