Windows

• Windows 1.0
  Windows 1.0
  Windows 1.0 is a 16-bit graphical operating environment, developed by Microsoft and released on 20 November 1985. It was Microsoft's first attempt to implement a multi-tasking graphical user interface-based operating environment on the PC platform. Windows 1.0 was the first version of Windows...
  
  
• Windows 2.0
  Windows 2.0
  Windows 2.0 is a 16-bit Microsoft Windows GUI-based operating environment that was released on December 9, 1987 and is the successor to Windows 1.0. With Windows 2.1x in 1988, Windows 2.0 was supplemented by Windows/286 and Windows/386...
  
  
• Windows 3.x
  Windows 3.x
  Windows 3.x can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:*Windows 3.0*Windows 3.1x*Windows 3.2...
  
  

Windows NT line

• Windows NT 3.1
  Windows NT 3.1
  Windows NT 3.1 is the first release of Microsoft's Windows NT line of server and business desktop operating systems, and was released to manufacturing on 27 July 1993. The version number was chosen to match the one of Windows 3.1, the then-latest operating environment from Microsoft, on account of...
  
  
• Windows NT 3.5
  Windows NT 3.5
  Windows NT 3.5 is the second release of the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. It was released on 21 September 1994.One of the primary goals during Windows NT 3.5's development was to increase the speed of the operating system; as a result, the project was given the codename "Daytona" in...
  
  
• Windows NT 3.51
  Windows NT 3.51
  Windows NT 3.51 is the third release of Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems. It was released on 30 May 1995, nine months after Windows NT 3.5. The release provided two notable feature improvements; firstly NT 3.51 was the first of a short-lived outing of Microsoft Windows on the...
  
  
• Windows NT 4.0
  Windows NT 4.0
  Windows NT 4.0 is a preemptive, graphical and business-oriented operating system designed to work with either uniprocessor or symmetric multi-processor computers. It was the next release of Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems and was released to manufacturing on 31 July 1996...
  
  
• Windows 2000
  Windows 2000
  Windows 2000 is a line of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, business desktops, laptops, and servers. Windows 2000 was released to manufacturing on 15 December 1999 and launched to retail on 17 February 2000. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the...
  
  
  • Professional
  • Server
  • Advanced Server
  • Datacenter Server
• Windows XP
  Windows XP
  Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base...
  
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  Windows XP editions
  Windows XP has been released in several editions since its original release in 2001.Windows XP is available in many languages. In addition, add-ons translating the user interface are also available for certain languages.-Home and Professional:...
  
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  • Starter Edition (16 editions for each of 16 countries)
  • Home Edition
  • Home Edition N (European market)
  • Home Edition K (South Korean market)
  • Home Edition KN (South Korean market)
  • Home Edition for Subscription Computers
  • Home Edition for Prepaid Computers
  • Professional Edition
  • Professional Edition N (European market)
  • Professional Edition K (South Korean market)
  • Professional Edition KN (South Korean market)
  • 64-bit Edition
  • Professional x64 Edition
  • Media Center Edition
  • Tablet PC Edition
  • XP for Embedded Systems
  • XP Embedded
  • Embedded for Point of Service
  • Windows Fundamentals For Legacy PCs
    Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
    Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is a thin client operating system from Microsoft, based on Windows XP Embedded, but optimized for older, less powerful hardware. It was released on 8 July 2006...
    
    
• Windows Server 2003
  Windows Server 2003
  Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005...
  
  
  • Small Business Server
  • Web Edition
  • Standard Edition
  • Enterprise Edition
  • Datacenter Edition
  • Storage Server
  • Windows Home Server
    Windows Home Server
    Windows Home Server, code-named Quattro, is a home server operating system from Microsoft. Announced on 7 January 2007, at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates, Windows Home Server is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing, automated backups,...
    
    
• Windows Vista
  Windows Vista
  Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...
  
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  Windows Vista editions
  Windows Vista is available in six different marketing editions. With the exception of Windows Vista Starter, all editions support both 32-bit and 64-bit processor architectures....
  
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  • Starter
  • Home Basic
  • Home Basic N (European market)
  • Home Premium
  • Business
  • Business N (European market)
  • Enterprise
  • Ultimate
• Windows Server 2008
  • Web Server
  • Standard Edition
  • Enterprise Edition
  • Datacenter Edition
  • for Itanium-based Systems
• Windows 7 (full details
  Windows 7 editions
  Windows 7 is available in six different editions, but only Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate are widely available at retail. The other editions focus on other markets, such as the developing world or enterprise use. All editions support IA-32 CPUs and all editions except Starter support the...
  
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  • Starter
  • Home Basic
  • Home Premium
  • Home Premium N (European market)
  • Professional
  • Professional N (European market)
  • Enterprise
  • Ultimate
  • Ultimate N (European market)

Windows Mobile computing

• Windows CE
  Windows CE
  Microsoft Windows CE is an operating system developed by Microsoft for embedded systems. Windows CE is a distinct operating system and kernel, rather than a trimmed-down version of desktop Windows...
  
  
• Windows Mobile
  Windows Mobile
  Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is...
  
  
• Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition
• Microsoft Windows Mobile 2005
• windows Pari
• Windows CE 4.0
• Windows CE 5.0
  Windows CE 5.0
  Windows CE 5.0 is a successor to Windows CE 4.2, the third release in the Windows CE .NET family.It was first released on July 09, 2004. Like its predecessors, Windows CE 5.0 is marketed towards the embedded device market and independent device vendors...
  
  
• Windows Mobile 6
• Windows Mobile 6.5

Other operating systems in development

• Singularity (operating system)
  Singularity (operating system)
  Singularity is an experimental operating system being built by Microsoft Research since 2003. It is intended as a highly-dependable OS in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed code.- Workings :...
  
  
• Windows Phone 7
  Windows Phone 7
  Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...
  
  

Windows

• Windows Chicago
• Windows Neptune
  Windows Neptune
  Neptune was the codename for a version of the Windows operating system that was under development by Microsoft during 1999. It was based on Windows 2000 and was scheduled to be the first consumer version of Windows to be built on NT code, to replace the Windows 9x series.In early 2000, Microsoft...
  
  
• Windows NT 5.0
• Windows Nashville
  Windows Nashville
  Nashville was the codename for a cancelled release of Microsoft Windows scheduled to be released in 1996, between "Chicago" and "Memphis" , causing it to be referred to as Windows 96 by the public...
  
  
• Windows Whistler
• Windows LongHorn
• Windows Memphis

External links

• Concise Microsoft O.S. Timeline, by Bravo Technology Center