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Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009. [10] It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly three years earlier. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released at the ...
The booting process of Windows NT begins with NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager in Vista and later. [30] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting the kernel, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded, the ...
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 ...
CyanogenMod 7.1 was released on 10 October 2011, based on Android 2.3.4. [39] The latest stable version, CyanogenMod 7.2 was released on 16 June 2012, based on Android 2.3.7, [40] bringing a predictive phone dialer, lock-screen updates, ICS animation backports and many bug fixes. [41]
Firefox OS [4] (project name: Boot to Gecko, also known as B2G) [5] is a discontinued open-source operating system made for smartphones, [6] tablet computers, [7] smart TVs, [8] and dongles designed by Mozilla and external contributors. It is based on the rendering engine of the Firefox web browser, Gecko, and on the Linux kernel. It was first ...
In September 2015, it was reported that Microsoft was triggering automatic downloads of Windows 10 installation files on all compatible Windows 7 or 8.1 systems configured to automatically download and install updates, regardless of whether or not they had specifically requested the upgrade.
Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct successor to Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users.
All the existing features including video filters, subtitle support, and an equalizer are present in Windows 8. [74] A beta version of VLC for Windows 8 was released to the Microsoft Store on March 13, 2014. [75] A universal app was created for Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Phone 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile.