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Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of computer software operating systems created by Microsoft.Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Windows 98 was the first edition of Windows to adopt the Windows Driver Model, and introduced features that would become standard in future generations of Windows, such as Disk Cleanup, Windows Update, multi-monitor support, and Internet Connection Sharing.
Windows 98: Memphis [b] June 25, 1998 4.10 Windows 98; 1998 IA-32: July 11, 2006 Windows 98 Second Edition — June 10, 1999 Windows 98 Second Edition; 2222A Windows 2000: Windows NT 5.0: February 17, 2000 NT 5.0 Windows 2000 Professional; 2195 IA-32: July 13, 2010 Windows Me: Millennium: September 14, 2000 4.90 Windows Me; 3000 IA-32: July 11 ...
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 7 is a real mode operating system for IBM PC compatibles. Unlike earlier versions of MS-DOS, it was not released separately by Microsoft, [3] but included in the Windows 9x family of operating systems. [4] Windows 95 RTM reports it as MS-DOS 7.0, [5] and Windows 95 OSR 2.x and Windows 98 report as 7.1. [5]
Windows Me [note 1] (Millennium Edition) is an operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was the successor to Windows 98, and was released to manufacturing on June 19, 2000, and then to retail on September 14, 2000.
System requirements for Windows Virtual PC: [35] [36] Computer running Windows 7 (all editions except Starter) 15 GB of hard disk space per virtual Windows environment; Optional: if the processor supports hardware-assisted virtualization technology such as AMD-V or Intel-VT, it will be used. Before March 19, 2010, such a processor was mandatory.
The main purpose of Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP) is to allow users running old PCs to be able to replace unsupported Windows NT Workstation v.4, Windows 95 and Windows 98 with a supported release of Windows XP (or, eventually, a version based on Windows Vista).