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2. Windows Vista editions - Wikipedia

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   Users could purchase and download Windows Vista directly from Microsoft through the Windows Marketplace before the service's discontinuation. [32] [33]Optical media distributed through retail or through OEMs for Windows Vista are identical; Microsoft refers to this as "CD unification."

3. Comparison of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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   Comparison of Microsoft Windows versions. 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).

4. Microsoft Windows version history - Wikipedia

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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 ...

5. List of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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   A "personal computer" version of Windows is considered to be a version that end-users or OEMs can install on personal computers, including desktop computers, laptops, and workstations. 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 ...

6. Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   All editions except Windows Vista Starter support both the 32-bit architecture and the additional 64-bit instruction set extensions, which Vista was the first consumer home release of Windows to support. [41] [96] Intel IA-64 Itanium support however is exclusively limited to the Vista-based Windows Server 2008.

7. Comparison of Windows Vista and Windows XP - Wikipedia

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   Windows Vista. Windows XP and Windows Vista differ considerably in regards to their security architecture, networking technologies, management and administration, shell and user interface, and mobile computing. Windows XP has suffered criticism for security problems and issues with performance. Vista has received criticism for issues with ...

8. Development of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   Windows Vista. The development of Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) began in May 2001, [1] prior to the release of Microsoft 's Windows XP operating system, and continued until November 8, 2006, where it was released to manufacturing. Windows Vista was then released generally to retail on January 30, 2007.

9. Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.It is grouped into families and sub-families that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system.