• Windows Search (formerly MSN Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and the Windows Search Engine) is a content index and desktop search platform by...
    55 KB (5,760 words) - 22:04, 1 April 2025
  • known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application and default desktop environment that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating...
    64 KB (6,811 words) - 23:49, 6 July 2025
  • Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market...
    24 KB (848 words) - 21:01, 14 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Microsoft Bing
    search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows...
    107 KB (9,513 words) - 15:01, 19 July 2025
  • Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service"...
    85 KB (5,464 words) - 03:09, 5 July 2025
  • The Windows 11 2024 Update (also known as version 24H2 and codenamed "Hudson Valley") is the third and latest major update to Windows 11. It carries the...
    123 KB (4,213 words) - 16:25, 21 July 2025
  • Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years...
    173 KB (16,926 words) - 17:46, 8 July 2025
  • replacement of the search engine Live Search, was originally named Windows Live Search (and MSN Search prior to that) and was once part of the Windows Live family...
    34 KB (1,845 words) - 17:01, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bing Maps
    Bing Maps (previously Live Search Maps, Windows Live Maps, Windows Live Local, and MSN Virtual Earth) is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's...
    46 KB (3,319 words) - 19:43, 21 June 2025
  • previously known as Windows Task Manager, is a task manager, system monitor, and startup manager included with Microsoft Windows systems. It provides...
    20 KB (2,540 words) - 00:56, 25 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Desktop search
    With the release of Windows Vista came Windows Search 3.1. Unlike its predecessors WDS and Windows Search 3.0, 3.1 could search through both indexed...
    16 KB (1,914 words) - 20:14, 26 January 2025
  • Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became...
    148 KB (12,004 words) - 20:39, 11 July 2025
  • Compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, features new to Windows Vista are numerous, covering most aspects of the operating system, including...
    122 KB (13,926 words) - 19:57, 16 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Windows key
    1994. Windows 95 used it to bring up the start menu and it then became a standard key on PC keyboards. On computers running the Microsoft Windows operating...
    24 KB (2,855 words) - 13:50, 16 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Microsoft Copilot
    Copilot into Windows 11, allowing users to access it directly through the taskbar. In January 2024, a dedicated Copilot key was announced for Windows keyboards...
    63 KB (5,660 words) - 19:07, 18 July 2025
  • While Windows 7 contains many new features, a number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of previous Windows versions up to Windows Vista...
    58 KB (6,777 words) - 18:56, 14 April 2025
  • The Windows 11 2023 Update (also known as version 23H2 and codenamed "Sun Valley 3") is the second major update to Windows 11. It was shipped as an enablement...
    109 KB (4,660 words) - 00:38, 16 July 2025
  • The Windows 10 2022 Update (codenamed "22H2") is the thirteenth and final major update to Windows 10. It carries the build number 10.0.19045. The first...
    48 KB (2,325 words) - 00:36, 16 July 2025
  • Microsoft Windows was announced by Bill Gates on November 10, 1983, 2 years before it was first released. Microsoft introduced Windows as a graphical user...
    89 KB (10,872 words) - 01:34, 13 July 2025
  • updated indexes without user intervention. In Windows Vista it was replaced by the newer Windows Search Indexer. The IFilter plugins to extend the indexing...
    6 KB (553 words) - 06:11, 1 March 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...
    136 KB (11,462 words) - 22:57, 18 July 2025
  • Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available...
    136 KB (12,820 words) - 05:50, 30 June 2025
  • enhancements. Unlike Windows Vista, window borders and the taskbar do not turn opaque when a window is maximized while Windows Aero is active; instead...
    124 KB (12,577 words) - 17:11, 17 April 2025
  • Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013, and broadly released...
    82 KB (7,275 words) - 19:01, 10 June 2025
  • Windows 11 is the current major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021, as the successor to Windows 10 (2015)...
    132 KB (11,106 words) - 22:59, 18 July 2025
  • Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and...
    96 KB (9,030 words) - 08:12, 21 July 2025
  • email client developed by Microsoft and included in Windows Vista and later versions of Windows. It was available as the successor to Outlook Express...
    15 KB (1,347 words) - 15:54, 21 June 2025
  • can be searched for with appropriate software, such as Microsoft's Windows Search. Earlier versions of PaperPort used OmniPage to provide this function...
    6 KB (398 words) - 06:05, 11 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Everything (software)
    Everything is a freeware desktop search utility for Windows that can rapidly find files and folders by name. While the binaries are licensed under a permissive...
    9 KB (697 words) - 04:04, 14 February 2025
  • Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. The successor to Windows 8.1, it was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015...
    273 KB (22,328 words) - 20:51, 20 June 2025