Microsoft Windows
Appearance
Windows logo, introduced in 2021. | |
Company / developer | Microsoft |
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Written in | Assembly, C, C++[1] |
OS faimily | Windows 9x, Windows CE an Windows NT |
Wirkin state | Publicly released |
Soorce model | Closed / Shared soorce |
Initial release | November 20, 1985Windows 1.0 | , as
Mercatin target | Personal computin |
Available in | Multilingual (137 languages)[2] |
Update method | Windows Update, Windows Anytime Upgrade |
Platforms | ARM, IA-32, Itanium, x86-64 |
Kernel type |
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Default uiser interface | Windows Shell |
License | Proprietary commercial software |
Offeecial wabsteid | windows |
Microsoft Windows (fae the Inglis Windies) is a series o graphical interface operatin seestems developt, merkatit, an selt bi Microsoft.
Microsoft introduced an operatin environment named Windows on 20 November 1985 as a graphical operatin system shell for MS-DOS in repon tae the grawin interest in graphical uiser interfaces (GUI).[3] Microsoft Windies came tae dominate the warld's personal computer merkat wi ower 90% merkat share, owertakin Mac OS, that haed been introduced in 1984.
As o July 2015[update], the maist recent versions o Windies for personal computers, mobile devices, server computers an embeddit devices are respectively Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, an Windows Server 2012.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "NT Server Training: Architectural Overview. Lesson 2 – Windows NT System Overview". Microsoft TechNet. Microsoft. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
- ↑ listing of available Windows 7 language packs
- ↑ "The Unusual History of Microsoft Windows". Retrieved 22 Apryle 2007.[deid airtin]