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improvements, with the latest version of Windows based on Windows NT being Windows 11 in 2021. The name "Windows NT" originally denoted the major technological...

the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system...

workstations. The first five versions of Windows–Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 2.1, Windows 3.0, and Windows 3.1–were all based on MS-DOS, and were aimed at both...

Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a line of discontinued Microsoft Windows operating systems from 1995 to 2000, which were based on the Windows...

The first versions of Windows (1.0 through to 3.11) were graphical shells that ran from MS-DOS. Windows 95, though still being based on MS-DOS, was its own...

Microsoft Windows SDK, which includes documentation and tools for building software based on the Windows API. The functions provided by the Windows API can...

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a series of video codecs and their corresponding video coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows Media...

system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows Embedded family of products. Based on Windows NT, Windows Embedded Industry is designed for use in industrial...

Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service"...

around on Windows-based mobile devices since camera hardware was included on those devices and was introduced on Windows PCs with Windows 8, providing...

the Windows RT 8 operating system was officially launched alongside Windows 8 on October 26, 2012, with the release of three Windows RT-based devices...

markets. As a result, Windows XP is the first consumer edition of Windows not based on the Windows 95 kernel or MS-DOS. Windows XP removed support for...

Windows 11 is the latest major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021. It succeeded Windows 10 (2015) and is available...

be traced to Windows CE in 1996, though it first appeared in 2000 as Pocket PC 2000 which ran on Pocket PC PDAs. It was renamed "Windows Mobile" in 2003...

A Linux kernel-based CD with tools for Windows and Linux repairs DesktopBSD – as of 1.6RC1[citation needed] FreeBSD and FreeSBIE based FreeBSD – has supported...

In computing, Windows on Windows (commonly referred to as WOW) was a compatibility layer of 32-bit versions of the Windows NT family of operating systems...

Windows Registry. When introduced with Windows 3.1, the Windows Registry primarily stored configuration information for COM-based components. Windows...

Windows Embedded Compact, formerly Windows Embedded CE, Windows Powered and Windows CE, was an operating system developed by Microsoft for mobile and...

is the server version of Windows based on Windows 8 and succeeds Windows Server 2008 R2, which is derived from the Windows 7 codebase, released nearly...

Servicing Branch" (LTSB) until 2016. Windows Server 2016, based on Windows 10 version 1607 Windows Server 2019, based on Windows 10 version 1809 Xbox system software...