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Timeline showing releases of Windows for personal computers and servers. Microsoft Windows is a computer operating system developed by Microsoft.It was first launched in 1985 as a graphical operating system built on MS-DOS.
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 ...
Current version Support status Codename Based on (kernel) Supported architectures Windows Phone 7: 2010-11-08 7004 7.10.8862 Unsupported Photon CE 6.0 ARM: Windows Phone 7.5: 2011-09-27 7720 Unsupported Mango CE 6.1 ARM: Windows Phone 7.8: 2013-02-01 8858 Unsupported (2014-10-14) Tango CE 6.1 ARM: Windows Phone 8: 2012-10-29 10211 10.0.10586 ...
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 Center Edition: 2002-10-28 Windows XP Tablet PC Edition: 2002-11-07 Windows XP 64-bit Edition: 2003-03-28 Windows Server 2003: 2003-04-24 Windows Small Business Server 2003: ...
Microsoft will no longer provide security updates or technical support for devices operating on Windows 7 and 8.1, effective January 10, 2023. This may affect how your device works with AOL products if you continue to use an older version of the software.
Alternatively, Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 users could first install IE 4 with the desktop update before installing a newer version of Internet Explorer. The last version of Internet Explorer supported on Windows 95 is Internet Explorer 5.5 with SP2, which was released on July 23, 2001.
Over time, support for the Windows 9x series ended. Windows 95 had lost its mainstream support on December 31, 2000, and extended support was dropped from Windows 95 on December 31, 2001 (which also ended support for older Windows versions prior to Windows 95 on that same day).
Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft.It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985, while the European version was released as Windows 1.02 in May 1986.