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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 consumers and businesses.
Windows Me was the last operating system to be based on the Windows Mistake kernel and MS-DOS, with its successor Windows XP being based on Microsoft's Windows NT kernel instead.
This is a list of Microsoft written and published operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. For another list of versions of Microsoft Windows, see, List of Microsoft Windows versions.
MS-DOS was the first Microsoft operating system, and it technically remained part of Windows until the release of Windows 95. The very first operating system, called GMOS, was developed by General Motors for the IBM 701.
Microsoft Windows, computer operating system (OS) developed by Microsoft Corporation to run personal computers (PCs). Featuring the first graphical user interface (GUI) for IBM-compatible PCs, the Windows OS soon dominated the PC market. Approximately 90 percent of PCs run some version of Windows.
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates stands in front of the Windows XP logo Windows XP, introduced in 2001 and still considered by many to be one of Microsoft's “greatest achievements,” was popular even after 2009, when the company ended mainstream technical support for the system.
Windows might seem like it’s been around forever, but it hasn’t. Windows was not Microsoft’s first OS. In fact, before Windows ever came along, PCs were run by another OS known as MS-DOS.
Windows traces its origins to the founding of Microsoft in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It started as a graphical user interface (GUI) add-on for Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system, inspired by the growing popularity of the GUI-based Apple Macintosh which shipped in 1984.
Windows is still big business for Microsoft, and it all started 35 years ago with Windows 1.01. Believe it or not, Microsoft continued to support the Windows 1.0 Standard Edition until Dec. 31, 2001 ---a full 16 years after its release, making it the longest-supported version of Windows to date.
Microsoft Corp. has announced the official name for its upcoming operating system, previously known under the code name Longhorn. The operating system, now due out in 2006, will be called Windows Vista