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However, Windows 3.1 had two separate successors, splitting the Windows line in two: the consumer-focused "Windows 9x" line, consisting of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me; and the professional Windows NT line, comprising Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000.
Windows 8.1 with Bing is a reduced-cost SKU of Windows 8.1 that was introduced by Microsoft in May 2014 in an effort to further encourage the production of low-cost Windows devices, whilst "driving end-user usage of Microsoft Services such as Bing and OneDrive".
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.
Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available for download via MSDN and TechNet on August 15, 2012, [6] and generally released for retail on October 26, 2012.
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 ...
Mobile devices, powered by Google's Android and Apple's iOS, have begun to eat into sales of traditional PCs running Microsoft's Windows operating system. In an attempt to beat back the ...
Windows Embedded for Point of Service: 2005-06-06 Windows Server 2003 R2: 2005-12-06 Windows Vista: 2007-01-30 Windows Home Server: 2007-11-04 Windows Server 2008: 2008-02-27 Windows Small Business Server 2008: 2008-08-21 Windows Embedded Standard 2009: 2008-12-14 Windows Embedded POSReady 2009: Windows 7: 2009-10-22 Windows Server 2008 R2 ...
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2008: DragonFly BSD 1.12 FreeBSD 7.0: 2008–03: IBM i 6.1 Singularity 1.1 2008–04: Windows Mobile 6.1 Windows XP Service Pack 3: Linux 2.6.25 Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS) 2008–05: OpenBSD 4.3: Fedora Linux 9 Slackware 12.1: Solaris 10 5/08 OpenSolaris 2008.05 BS2000/OSD v8.0A 2008–06: SUSE Linux 11.0 ...