Window´s Operating Systems

 Windows is a group of several families of proprietary graphics operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry, for example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems.

Window´s 1.0

The first stand-alone version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released on November 20, 1985, met with little popularity. The project was briefly called "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 Windows name would be more attractive to customers. Windows 1.0 was not a complete operating system.

Window´s 2.X

Microsoft Windows version 2.0 (2.01 and 2.03 internally) came out on December 9, 1987 and proved slightly more popular than its predecessor. Much of the popularity of Windows 2.0 was due to its inclusion as a "runtime version" with Microsoft's new graphical applications, Excel and Word for Windows.

Window´s 3.0

Windows 3.0, released in May 1990, improved the capabilities of native applications. It also allowed users to better multitask with older MS-DOS-based software compared to Windows/386, thanks to the introduction of virtual memory. The Windows 3.0 user interface finally seemed like a serious competitor to the Macintosh computer user interface.

OS/2

During the mid to late 1980s, Microsoft and IBM had been cooperatively developing OS/2 as a successor to DOS. OS/2 would take full advantage of the Intel 80286 processor's previously mentioned protected mode and up to 16 MB of memory. OS/2 1.0, released in 1987, supported swapping and multitasking and allowed running DOS executables.

Window´s 95

After Windows 3.11, Microsoft began developing a new consumer-oriented version of the operating system codenamed Chicago. Chicago was designed to support 32-bit preemptive multitasking like OS/2 and Windows NT, though a 16-bit kernel would be retained for the sake of backwards compatibility. The Win32 API, first introduced with Windows NT, was adopted as the standard 32-bit programming interface while retaining compatibility with Win16 through a technique known as "thunking." A new object-oriented GUI was not originally planned as part of the release, although elements of the Cairo UI were borrowed and added as other aspects of the release (notably Plug and Play) slipped in.

Window´s 98

On June 25, 1998, Microsoft released Windows 98 (codenamed Memphis), three years after the release of Windows 95, two years after the release of Windows NT 4.0, and 21 months before the release of Windows 2000. It included new hardware drivers and the FAT32 file system that supports disk partitions larger than 2 GB (first introduced in Windows 95 OSR2). USB support in Windows 98 is marketed as a vast improvement over Windows 95.

Window´s 2000

Microsoft released Windows 2000 on February 17, 2000, as the successor to Windows NT 4.0, 17 months after the release of Windows 98. It has the version number Windows NT 5.0 and was Microsoft's business-oriented operating system upon release. official. on February 17, 2000, until 2001 when it was succeeded by Windows XP.

Window´s Server 2003

On April 25, 2003, Microsoft released Windows Server 2003, a significant update to Windows 2000 Server that encompasses many new security features, a new "Manage Your Server" wizard that simplifies configuring a machine for specific functions, and improved performance. . It is based on the Windows NT 5.2 kernel.

Winsow´s Server 2008

Windows Server 2008, released on February 27, 2008, was originally known as the Windows Server Codename "Longhorn". Windows Server 2008 built on the security and technology advances first introduced with Windows Vista and was significantly more modular than its predecessor, Windows Server 2003. Windows Server 2008 shipped in ten editions.