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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was announced on March 18, 2010. A beta was released on July 12, 2010. [145] [146] [147] The final version was released to the public on February 22, 2011. [148] At the time of release, it was not made mandatory. It was available via Windows Update, direct download, or by ordering the Windows 7 SP1 DVD. [149]
Windows 7, a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system, has been released in several editions since its original release in 2009. Only Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate were widely available at retailers. [ 1 ] The other editions focus on other markets, such as the software development world or enterprise use.
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 ...
Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, 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 ...
Release date RTM build Current version Status support 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 ...
Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 was released through different channels between April 28 [125] and June 9, 2009, one year after the release of Windows Vista SP1, and four months before the release of Windows 7. [126] In addition to a number of security and other fixes, a number of new features have been added.
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, which offered several security enhancements, coincided with the Windows XP SP1 patch release and it is the last version of Internet Explorer to support Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP RTM–SP1 and Windows Server 2003 RTM.
Internet Explorer 11 ( IE11) is the eleventh and final version of the Internet Explorer web browser. It was initially released on October 17, 2013, and was later released for older Windows versions on November 7, 2013. It is the successor to Internet Explorer 10, released the previous year, and was the original, default browser before Microsoft ...