Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft Windows is an operating system produced and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. It is estimated that as of December 2007 [1] the Microsoft Windows family accounted for roughly 88% of operating system usage, with 73.4% belonging to the Windows XP family. Windows is used both as a desktop operating system and a server[2] operating system, and is intended for use with the Intel x86 family of processors.
Early versions of Windows (98 and earlier) were notoriously unreliable, despite (or maybe because of?) Microsoft's near-monopoly share of the operating system market. They crashed so often that the term "blue screen of death" entered the vocabulary. See also this satire: Matrix Runs on Windows XP
Versions
The following are a list of releases of Microsoft Windows. While initially Windows was merely a graphical user interface extension to MS-DOS shell[3], it became a full operating system beginning with the release of Windows NT.
- Windows 1.0, 2.x, and 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 3.11FWG
- Windows NT 3.5 and 4.0
- Windows 95
- Windows 98 and 98SE
- Windows ME
- Windows 2000 Professional, Server, and Advanced Server editions
- Windows Neptune (unreleased)
- Windows XP Professional, Home, and Media Center editions
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Seven
References
- ↑ OS Statistics. Refsnes Data. Retrieved 29 January, 2008.
- ↑ Windows Server 2003 R2 Home. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 29 January, 2008.
- ↑ Windows History: Windows Desktop Timeline. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 29 January, 2008.
