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Windows 2.0 is the last version of Windows that ran solely on floppy disks. [ 31 ] The operating environment is shipped with fifteen programs, [ 32 ] and it also introduced the GUI based programs Microsoft Word and Excel , to compete against the then-reigning competitors WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 . [ 27 ]
The promised standalone installer for Windows 7 and later was released on 2 May 2017, [103] but it had prerequisites not included with the package. [104] NET Framework 4.7 dropped support for Windows 8 and will only run on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and later. New features in .NET Framework 4.7 include: [105]
In computing, the utility diff is a data comparison tool that computes and displays the differences between the contents of files. Unlike edit distance notions used for other purposes, diff is line-oriented rather than character-oriented, but it is like Levenshtein distance in that it tries to determine the smallest set of deletions and insertions to create one file from the other.
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.
Further improvements in later versions include a desktop grid, wildcard support in file searches, multi-process settings daemon, desktop actions in the panel launcher, separate processes for desktop handling and file manager in Nemo; an additional desktop panel layout option that offers a more modern looking theme and grouped windows; improved ...
Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. [9] A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager.
6.7 8 January 2024 [1] 6.7.12 [10] 3 April 2024 Initial Bcachefs filesystem support [21] Itanium support removed [21] Intel Meteor Lake Graphics declared stable [21] Initial Nouveau support for Nvidia GSP firmware [21] Ability to disable IA-32 support at boot time on AMD64 [22] Expansion of AMD Seamless Boot Support [22]