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  2. Windows 98 - Wikipedia

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    Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was the second operating system in the 9x line, as the successor to Windows 95. It was released to manufacturing on May 15, 1998, and generally to retail on June 25, 1998.

  3. Product key - Wikipedia

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    Product key on a Proof of License Certificate of Authenticity for Windows Vista Home Premium. A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program. It certifies that the copy of the program is original. Product keys consist of a series of numbers and/or letters.

  4. Product activation - Wikipedia

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    A product key is required to proceed and use Windows 95. In one form, product activation refers to a method invented by Ric Richardson and patented (U.S. patent 5,490,216) by Uniloc where a software application hashes hardware serial numbers and an ID number specific to the product's license (a product key) to

  5. Microsoft Windows version history - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Windows Me - Wikipedia

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    Windows Me [note 1] (Millennium Edition) is an operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was the successor to Windows 98, and was released to manufacturing on June 19, 2000, and then to retail on September 14, 2000.

  7. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Windows 98 (2nd edition) 2000s. Year–month Windows Apple BSD Linux Others 2000–01: 2000–02: Windows 2000 [48] Solaris 8 2000–03: FreeBSD 4.0: Red Hat Linux 6. ...

  8. Microsoft Plus! - Wikipedia

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    Windows 95 with Microsoft Plus boot screen. This was the first version of Plus! and had an initial cost of US$49.99. [6] It included Space Cadet Pinball, the Internet Jumpstart Kit (which was the introduction of Internet Explorer 1.0), DriveSpace 3 and Compression Agent disk compression utilities, the initial release of theme support along with a set of 12 themes, dial-up networking server ...

  9. Windows NT 4.0 - Wikipedia

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    Windows NT 4.0 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to Windows NT 3.51, and was released to manufacturing on July 31, 1996, [1] and then to retail in August 24, 1996, with the Server versions released to retail in September 1996.