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Upon the release of Windows 10 in 2015, the ARM-specific version for large tablets was discontinued; large tablets (such as the Surface Pro 4) were only released with x86 processors and could run the full version of Windows 10. Windows 10 Mobile had the ability to be installed on smaller tablets (up to nine inches); [16] however, very few such ...
Windows 10: Windows shell: Metro: Internet Explorer 11 Microsoft Edge: IIS 10.0 12 COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, PowerShell 5.0 Windows Server 2016: Windows shell, Windows server core: Metro: Internet Explorer 11 Microsoft Edge IIS 10.0 12 (via "Desktop Experience") cmd.exe, PowerShell 5.1 Windows Server 2019: Windows shell, Windows server core: Metro ...
Name Hard drive: partition size max Native support: File systems Native support: floppy capacities 3.5" Native support: floppy capacities 5.25" Native support: floppy capacities 8.0"
On May 2, 2017, Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 S (referred to in leaks as Windows 10 Cloud), a feature-limited edition of Windows 10 which was designed primarily for devices in the education market (competing, in particular, with ChromeOS netbooks), such as the Surface Laptop that Microsoft also unveiled at this time. The OS restricts software ...
Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system.
Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Microsoft Windows, released on November 20, 1985, achieved little popularity. The project was briefly codenamed "Interface Manager" before the windowing system was implemented—contrary to popular belief that it was the original name for Windows and Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows ...
However, for application compatibility reasons, Microsoft kept the major version number as 6 in releases following Vista, [52] but changed it later to 10 in Windows 10. [45] The build number is an internal identifier used by Microsoft's developers and beta testers. Starting with Windows 8.1, Microsoft changed the Version API Helper functions ...
It was released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013, and broadly released for retail sale on October 17, 2013, about a year after the retail release of its predecessor, and succeeded by Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Windows 8.1 was made available for download via MSDN and Technet and available as a free upgrade for retail copies of Windows 8 and ...