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A Microsoft Windows 1.0 brochure published in January 1986. Microsoft showed its desire to develop a graphical user interface (GUI) as early as 1981. [1] The development of Windows began after Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and the lead developer of Windows, saw a demonstration at COMDEX 1982 of VisiCorp's Visi On, a GUI software suite for IBM PC compatible computers. [2]
Timeline showing releases of Windows for personal computers and servers. Microsoft Windows is a computer operating system developed by Microsoft.It was first launched in 1985 as a graphical operating system built on MS-DOS.
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 ...
Windows for Workgroups 3.11: 1993-08-11 Windows NT 3.1: 1993-10-27 Windows NT 3.5: 1994-09-21 Windows NT 3.51: 1995-05-30 Windows 95: 1995-08-24 Windows NT 4.0: 1996-07-31 Windows 98: 1998-06-25 Windows 98 SE: 1999-05-05 Windows 2000: 2000-02-17 Windows Me: 2000-09-14 Windows XP: 2001-10-25 Windows XP Embedded: 2002-01-30 Windows XP Media ...
If an independent installation of both, DOS and Windows is desired, DOS ought to be installed prior to Windows, at the start of a small partition. The system must be transferred by the (dangerous) "SYSTEM" DOS-command, while the other files constituting DOS can simply be copied (the files located in the DOS-root and the entire COMMAND directory).
Windows 2.0 is the last version of Windows that ran solely on floppy disks. [ 31 ] The operating environment is shipped with fifteen programs, [ 32 ] and it also introduced the GUI based programs Microsoft Word and Excel , to compete against the then-reigning competitors WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 . [ 27 ]
Windows CE (officially known as Windows Embedded Compact), is an edition of Windows that runs on minimalistic computers, like satellite navigation systems and some mobile phones. Windows Embedded Compact is based on its own dedicated kernel, dubbed Windows CE kernel. Microsoft licenses Windows CE to OEMs and device makers. The OEMs and device ...
Windows 3.0 runs on DOS 3.1 or higher, [408] in one of three modes: Real mode runs Windows 2.x applications, much like previous Windows versions, with 640 KB of memory; Standard mode requires a 286 and 1 MB of memory; exploits extended memory and 16-bit 286 protected mode