Microsoft Windows
<operating system>
Microsoft's proprietary
window system and
user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of
MS-DOS.
Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "
Windoze", "
Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then.
The 1996 market share of operating systems was:
DOS/Windows 70% Windows 95 15% Windows NT 2% Other 13%
[Current shares?]
The version history goes something like: 1985
Windows 1, 1987
Windows 2, 1987
Windows/386, 1990
Windows 3.0, 1992
Windows 3.1, 1992 Windows for Workgroups 3.1, 1993
Windows 3.11, 1993 Windows for Workgroups 3.11, 1993
Windows NT 3.1, 1994
Windows NT 3.5, 1995
Windows 95, 199?
Windows NT 4, 1998
Windows 98, ?
Windows NT 5.
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