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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.
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, 2006 Windows XP: Whistler: October 25, 2001 NT 5.1 Windows XP Starter; Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional; 2600 IA-32: April 8, 2014 Windows XP 64-bit ...
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 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to Windows NT 4.0, and was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999, [2] officially released to retail on February 17, 2000 for all versions, and on September 26, 2000 for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
The Compaq Presario R3000 line of laptops primarily shipped with Windows XP preinstalled, however they can also be configured with either Windows 98, Windows 2000 Professional, or Windows Me preinstalled if the user ever chooses to do so.
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 ...
Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions before the official release.
Windows Me also introduced the first release of Windows Movie Maker and included Windows Media Player 7. Internet Explorer 5.5 came shipped with Windows Me. Many of the new features from Windows Me were also available as updates for older Windows versions such as Windows 98 via Windows Update. The role of MS-DOS has also been greatly reduced ...