Microsoft Windows

Screenshot of Windows 8.1, showing its Start screen

Company / developer Microsoft
Written in
Assembly
,
C
,
C++
[1]
OS family Windows 9x, Windows CE and Windows NT
Working state Publicly released
Source model Closed / Shared source
Initial release November 20, 1985, as Windows 1.0
Latest release 6.3.9600 (October 17, 2013) [] (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Template:Latest_stable_software_release/Windows_NT&action=edit)
[2]
Marketing target Personal computing
Available in 137 languages[3]
Update method Windows Update
Windows Anytime Upgrade
Microsoft Windows
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical interface
operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by
Microsoft.
Microsoft introduced an operating environment named
Windows on November 20, 1985 as a graphical operating
system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest
in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
[5]
Microsoft Windows
came to dominate the world's personal computer market with
over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had
been introduced in 1984.
As of April 2014, the most recent versions of Windows for
personal computers, smartphones, server computers and
embedded devices are respectively Windows 8.1, Windows
Phone 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows
Embedded 8.
Contents
1 Version history
1.1 Early versions
1.2 Windows 3.0 and 3.1
1.3 Windows 9x
1.4 Windows NT
1.4.1 Windows XP
1.4.2 Windows Vista and later
1.4.3 Multilingual support: IMEs and