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  2. Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Comparison of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. List of Microsoft operating systems - Wikipedia

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    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 Center Edition: 2002-10-28 Windows XP Tablet ...

  5. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    Windows is a proprietary operating system that is widely used on desktop computers, laptops, tablets, phones, workstations, enterprise servers, and Xbox consoles. [141] The operating system was designed for "security, reliability, compatibility, high performance, extensibility, portability, and international support"—later on, energy ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Windows 11 - Wikipedia

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    Windows 11 SE was announced on November 9, 2021, as an edition exclusively for low-end devices sold in the education market; it is intended as a successor to Windows 10 S, and also competes primarily with ChromeOS. It is designed to be managed via Microsoft Intune. Based on feedback from educators, Windows 11 SE has multiple UI differences and ...

  8. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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    Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. The successor to Windows 8.1, it was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, ...

  9. Comparison of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Windows (PowerShell) NOTE: Linux systems may vary by distribution which specific program, or even 'command' is called, via the POSIX alias function. For example, if you wanted to use the DOS dir to give you a directory listing with one detailed file listing per line you could use {{{1}}} (e.g. in a session configuration file).