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In 2012 and 2013, Microsoft released versions of Windows specially designed to run on ARM-based tablets; these versions of Windows, named "Windows RT" and "Windows RT 8.1," were based on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, respectively. Upon the release of Windows 10 in 2015, the ARM-specific version for large tablets was discontinued; large tablets ...
Windows 3.1 is a major release of Microsoft Windows.It was released to manufacturing on April 6, 1992, as a successor to Windows 3.0.Like its predecessors, the Windows 3.1 series run as a shell on top of MS-DOS; it was the last Windows 16-bit operating environment as all future versions of Windows had moved to 32-bit.
Windows for Workgroups 3.11: 1993-08-11 Windows NT 3.1: 1993-10-27 Windows NT 3.5: 1994-09-21 Windows NT 3.51: 1995-05-30 Windows 95: 1995-08-24 Windows NT 4.0: 1996-07-31 Windows 98: 1998-06-25 Windows 98 SE: 1999-05-05 Windows 2000: 2000-02-17 Windows Me: 2000-09-14 Windows XP: 2001-10-25 Windows XP Embedded: 2002-01-30 Windows XP Media ...
Amiga Unix 2.01 (Latest stable release) AmigaOS 3.0; BSD/386, by BSDi and later known as BSD/OS. LGX; OpenVMS V1.0 (First OpenVMS AXP (Alpha) specific version, November 1992) OS/2 2.0 (First i386 32-bit based version) Plan 9 First Edition (First public release was made available to universities) RSTS/E 10.1 (Last stable release, September 1992) SLS
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 ...
3 1 ⁄ 2-inch 720 KB floppy support Token Ring network IBM PC Convertible: April 1987: PC DOS 3.3 IBM: 3 1 ⁄ 2-inch 1.44 MB floppy support, extended partitions: IBM Personal System/2: November 1987: MS-DOS 3.31 Compaq: Hard disk partitions over 32 MB May 1988: DR DOS 3.31 Digital Research: ROMable DOS July 1988: IBM DOS 4.0 IBM: DOS Shell ...
Codename for the proposed 64-bit edition of Windows 2000, which was never released. [22] [23] Impala — Windows NT 4.0 Embedded — [24] Neptune — Dropped Planned to be the first consumer-oriented release of Windows NT succeeding the Windows 9x series; merged with Odyssey to form Whistler. [25] Triton — Dropped A planned minor update to ...
Windows 3.1 was released on April 6, 1992. In November 1993 Microsoft also released Windows 3.11, a touch-up to Windows 3.1 which included all of the patches and updates that followed the release of Windows 3.1 in early 1992. Meanwhile, Microsoft continued to develop Windows NT.