Windows 3.0 is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched on May 22, 1990. It introduces a new graphical user interface (GUI) that represents...

Windows 3.1 is a major release of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on April 6, 1992, as a successor to Windows 3.0. Like its predecessors...

Windows 2.0 is a major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was released...

successor to Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0 introduced the user interface of Windows 95 to the Windows NT family, including the Windows shell, File Explorer...

user interfaces (GUIs). The name "Windows" is a reference to the windowing system in GUIs. The 1990 release of Windows 3.0 catapulted its market success and...

version was released as Windows 1.02 in May 1986. Its development began after the Microsoft co-founder and spearhead of Windows 1.0, Bill Gates, saw a demonstration...

Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows...

several reasons, including the market success of Windows 3.0 in 1990, Microsoft decided to advance Windows rather than OS/2 and relinquished their OS/2 development...

separate codebase. The first versions of Windows (1.0 through to 3.11) were graphical shells that ran from MS-DOS. Windows 95, though still being based on MS-DOS...

Windows 3.x means either of, or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows: Windows 3.0 Windows 3.1 Windows NT 3.x This set index article includes...

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft and the first of its Windows 9x family of operating systems, released to manufacturing...

Windows CE, later known as Windows Embedded CE and Windows Embedded Compact, is a discontinued operating system developed by Microsoft for mobile and embedded...

Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, targeting the server and business markets. It is the direct...

workstations. The first five versions of Windows–Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 2.1, Windows 3.0, and Windows 3.1–were all based on MS-DOS, and were aimed...

1.3, Adobe dropped support for Windows XP (including Windows XP Professional x64 Edition); thus, the last version that works on Windows XP is 13.0.1....

editions were succeeded by Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Windows NT 4.0 Server, respectively. The release of Windows NT 3.51 was dubbed "the PowerPC...

Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-201-63287-3. Microsoft. "Windows 11 Specs and System Requirements | Microsoft Windows". Windows. Retrieved June 13, 2025....

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...

Windows 2.1 is a release of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on May 27, 1988, as a successor to Windows 2.0. It was released with two...

Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a line of discontinued Microsoft Windows operating systems released from 1995 to 2000 and supported until 2006...

development of Windows 8 closely parallelled that of Windows Phone 8. Windows 8 also added support for USB 3.0, Advanced Format, near-field communication, and...

never updated. The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989. With the release of Windows 3.0 the following year, sales began to pick up and...

"Understanding USB 3.0 in Windows 8 | Build2011 | Channel 9". Channel9.MSDN.com. Retrieved 19 January 2014. "USB in MS Windows 7 more reliable, but no 3.0 speed boost"...

(December 8, 2004). Microsoft Windows Internals (4 ed.). Microsoft. ISBN 978-0-7356-1917-3. The first release of Windows NT was larger and slower than...

Windows Preinstallation Environment (also known as Windows PE and WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows used for the deployment of PCs, workstations...

Windows after Windows 3.1 (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11)...

Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is the Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and...

Windows Mobile 2003 – Version of the Windows Mobile operating system Windows Mobile 6.0 – Discontinued mobile operating system by Microsoft Windows Mobile...

have been included in versions of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting from Windows 1.0, all published by Microsoft. Some games that...

for drawing in Microsoft Windows. There are three major types of metafiles – a WMF is a 16-bit format introduced in Windows 3.0. It is the native vector...