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'''Windows''', or '''Microsoft Windows''', is a family of operating systems that has dominated desktop and laptop computers for many years, though its dominance of the overall computing market is waning due to the rise of other devices such as smartphones and tablets which usually use other systems. Starting out as a graphical environment under [[MS-DOS]] (versions through 3.x had to be run after booting the command-line-based DOS system), it became a system a PC booted directly into as of Windows 95, and there have been a number of different versions since.
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'''Windows''', or '''Microsoft Windows''', is a family of operating systems that has dominated desktop and laptop computers for many years, though its dominance of the overall computing market is waning due to the rise of other devices such as smartphones and tablets which usually use other systems. Starting out as a graphical environment under [[MS-DOS]] (versions through 3.x had to be run after booting the command-line-based DOS system), it became a system a PC booted directly into as of [[Windows 95]], and there have been a number of different versions since.
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For formats related to Windows, see [[:Category:Windows]].
  
 
== Versions ==
 
== Versions ==
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** [[Windows 7]]
 
** [[Windows 7]]
 
** [[Windows 8]]
 
** [[Windows 8]]
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*** [[Windows 8.1]]
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** [[Windows 10]]
 
** Server
 
** Server
 
*** [[Windows Server 2003]]
 
*** [[Windows Server 2003]]
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*** [[Windows Phone 8.1]]
 
*** [[Windows Phone 8.1]]
 
*** [[Windows 10 Mobile]]
 
*** [[Windows 10 Mobile]]
 
== See also ==
 
* [[Windows 1252]] (character encoding)
 
* [[Windows Animated Cursor]]
 
* [[Windows clipboard]]
 
* [[Windows Imaging Format]]
 
* [[Windows Installer]]
 
* [[Windows Media Player Skin Package]]
 
* [[Windows Metafile]]
 
* [[Windows Registry]]
 
* [[Windows Task Scheduler JOB file]]
 
* [[Windows Shortcut]]
 
* [[Windows thumbnail cache]]
 
* [[WMA]]
 
* [[WMV]]
 
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==
 
* [http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplechapter/Chen_bonus_ch01.pdf Tales of application compatibility]
 
* [http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplechapter/Chen_bonus_ch01.pdf Tales of application compatibility]
  
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Latest revision as of 14:21, 20 July 2019

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Windows, or Microsoft Windows, is a family of operating systems that has dominated desktop and laptop computers for many years, though its dominance of the overall computing market is waning due to the rise of other devices such as smartphones and tablets which usually use other systems. Starting out as a graphical environment under MS-DOS (versions through 3.x had to be run after booting the command-line-based DOS system), it became a system a PC booted directly into as of Windows 95, and there have been a number of different versions since.

For formats related to Windows, see Category:Windows.

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