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Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Microsoft Windows, released on November 20, 1985, achieved little popularity. The project was briefly codenamed "Interface Manager" before the windowing system was implemented—contrary to popular belief that it was the original name for Windows and Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows ...
Windows 10 version 1709: Redstone 3 October 17, 2017 1709 16299 April 9, 2019 Windows 10 version 1803: Redstone 4 April 30, 2018 1803 17134 November 12, 2019 Windows 10 version 1809: Redstone 5 November 13, 2018 1809 17763 November 10, 2020 Windows 10 version 1903: 19H1 May 21, 2019 1903 18362 December 8, 2020 Windows 10 version 1909: Vanadium
32-bit Windows programs are assigned protected memory segments, which can be adjusted to any desired size, and memory areas outside the segment cannot be accessed by a program, that limited harm to other programs and the system when a program crashed. Before this, programs used fixed non-exclusive 64 KB segments.
Many 16-bit Windows legacy programs can run without changes on newer 32-bit editions of Windows. The reason designers made this possible was to allow software developers time to remedy their software during the industry transition from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 and later, without restricting the ability for the operating system to be upgraded to a current version before all programs used by a ...
A 32-bit protected-mode MS-DOS kernel based on Windows' 386 enhanced-mode kernel: Windows 95 VMM "Panther" [5] June 1993: The 32-bit Windows subsystem that could run on top of "Cougar" implementing a subset of Windows NT's Win32 API, but a superset of the Win32s API. Windows 95 "Rover" [5] June 1993: Windows for Mobile Computing, based on "Panther"
Super VGA (800x600), 32-bit color Windows Server 2016: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor 512 MB ECC memory 2 GB with Desktop Experience installed [26] depends on role 32 GB (~10 GB for OS) XGA (1024 x 768) Windows Server 2019: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor 512 MB ECC memory 2 GB with Desktop Experience installed [26] depends on role 32 GB XGA (1024 x 768 ...
Windows NT 4.0, like previous versions of Windows NT before it and versions after it, is a fully 32-bit OS, while Windows 95 is a 16/32-bit hybrid OS. While providing much greater stability than Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 was less flexible from a desktop perspective.
On April 25, 2005, Microsoft released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 editions to support x86-64 (or simply x64), the 64-bit version of x86 architecture. Windows Vista was the first client version of Windows NT to be released simultaneously in IA-32 and x64 editions. As of 2024, x64 is still supported.