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Line 3: − ==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<ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryProGraphic.mspx Windows History: Windows Desktop Timeline]. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 29 January, 2008.</ref>, 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 Server 2003 − * Windows Server 2003 R2 − * Windows Server 2008 − * Windows Server 2008 R2 +
→Versions: We don't need to be that detailed
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: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM&feature=related Matrix Runs on Windows XP]
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: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM&feature=related Matrix Runs on Windows XP]
While initially Windows was merely a [[graphical user interface]] extension to [[MS-DOS]] shell<ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryProGraphic.mspx Windows History: Windows Desktop Timeline]. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 29 January, 2008.</ref>, it became a full operating system beginning with the release of Windows NT.
See also:
*[[Windows XP]]
*[[Windows XP]] Professional, Home, and Media Center editions
*[[Windows Vista]]
*[[Windows Vista]]
*[[Windows Seven]]
*[[Windows Seven]]
*[[Windows 8]]
*[[Windows 8]]
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