What is Windows?

Windows is a graphical operating system developed by Microsoft. It allows users to

view and store files, run the software, play games, watch videos, and provides a way
to connect to the internet. It was released for both home computing and
professional works.

Microsoft introduced the first version as 1.0

It was released for both home computing and professional functions of Windows
on 10 November 1983. Later, it was released on many versions of Windows.

Why is Microsoft Windows called Windows?

When Microsoft Windows was not introduced, all of the Microsoft users were used
MS-DOS operating system. Microsoft gave one word to most of its products; it
required a new Word that can represent its new GUI operating system. Microsoft
decided to call it Windows because it has the ability to perform several tasks and run
applications simultaneously.

However, 'Windows' name prevailed because it best describes the boxes or computing
'windows' that were fundamental to the new operating system.

Features of Windows
Control Panel: Windows provides a Control Panel feature that includes many tools to
configure and manage the resources on their computer. For example, users can change
settings for audio, video, printers, mouse, keyboard, network connections, date and time,
power saving options, user accounts, installed applications, etc.

Cortana: Windows 10 introduced a feature named Cortana, which is able to accept voice
commands. It can perform various tasks such as it can answers your questions, search data
on your computer, online purchases, set reminders, and appointments, etc. Furthermore, it
acts like other voice-activated services such as Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri, including one
more benefit of searching the information on your computer. To open the Cortana in
Windows 10, press Window key + S.

File Explorer: It is also known as Windows Explorer, which displays your files and folders on
the computer. It allows users to browse the data on the hard drive, SSD and other inserted
removable disks like pen drives and CDs, and you can manage the content according to the
requirements such as delete, rename, search, and transfer the data.

Internet browser: As the internet browser is very important to search for anything, view
pages, online shopping, play games, watch videos, etc. Windows come with a pre-installed
internet browser. in Windows 10, the Edge internet browser is the default browser.
Furthermore, Internet Explorer was the default browser in Microsoft Windows from the
Windows edition 95 to 8.1 version

Microsoft Paint: Since November 1985, Microsoft Windows comes with pre-installed
Microsoft Paint. It is a simple software to create, view, and edit an image. It offers several
tools to draw an image, crop, resize, and save an image with a different file extension.

Etc..

Advantages of Windows Operating System

 Majority of the users- The majority of the clients use windows and that amounts to almost
95%.

 Programming and gaming support- Windows is a big platform that supports a majority of
applications and games which are both paid and unpaid. Most gaming laptops are windows
based because of their performance so programmers prefer the windows operating system
because of this feature.

 Clean and lucid GUI- The Graphical User Interface provided by Windows is clean and can be
understood well by a new user too. Windows UI is better than MAC and Linux.

 Microsoft Office- Windows users are provided with Microsoft Office which contains a lot of
applications like- Powerpoint, excel, word, OneNote, teams etc. This has built-in support for
Windows and works smoothly on windows.