Microsoft Windows

Windows 1.0 is a graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft.

Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows ME (marketed with the pronunciation of the pronoun "me", but commonly pronounced as an initialism, "M-E"), is a graphical operating system from Microsoft released to manufacturing in June 2000, and launched in September 2000.

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.

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993.

Resilient File System (ReFS), codenamed "Protogon", is a Microsoft proprietary file system introduced with Windows Server 2012 with the intent of becoming the "next generation" file system after NTFS.

Windows IoT, formerly Windows Embedded, is a family of operating systems from Microsoft designed for use in embedded systems.

Windows Installer (previously known as Microsoft Installer) is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software.

VBScript ("Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition") is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic.

Windows Embedded Automotive, formerly Microsoft Auto, Windows CE for Automotive, Windows Automotive, and Windows Mobile for Automotive, is an operating system subfamily of Windows Embedded based on Windows CE for use on computer systems in automobiles.

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM, also known as ConfigMgr), formerly Systems Management Server (SMS) is a systems management software product developed by Microsoft for managing large groups of computers running Windows NT, Windows Embedded, OS X, Linux or UNIX, as well as Windows Phone, Symbian, iOS and Android mobile operating systems.

Windows Mobile is a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs.

Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system from Microsoft.

Windows Nashville (previously Cleveland) was the codename for a cancelled release of Microsoft Windows scheduled to be released in 1996, between "Chicago" (Windows 95) and "Memphis" (Windows 98, at the time scheduled for release in 1997), causing it to be referred to as Windows 96 by the public.

The Portable Executable (PE) format is a file format for executables, object code, DLLs, FON Font files, and others used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems.

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Microsoft Azure /ˈæʒər/ is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers.

The Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) is a module of Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 that is available in the Control Panel under Performance Information and Tools (except in Windows 8.1).

Windows 2.1x, marketed as Windows/286 and Windows/386, and codenamed Blaze, is a family of Microsoft Windows graphical user interface-based operating environments.

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs ("WinFLP") is a thin client operating system from Microsoft.

Neptune was the codename for a version of Microsoft Windows under development in 1999.

WIN.COM is the executable file used to load versions of Windows that run from DOS.

The process in which retail versions of Microsoft Windows are installed onto a computer is referred to as Windows Setup.

Internet Information Services (IIS, formerly Internet Information Server) is an extensible web server created by Microsoft for use with Windows NT family.

Windows Embedded Industry, formerly Windows Embedded POSReady and Windows Embedded for Point of Service, is an operating system subfamily developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows Embedded family of products.

Windows Home Server, code-named Quattro, is a home server operating system from Microsoft.

The Active Template Library (ATL) is a set of template-based C++ classes developed by Microsoft, intended to simplify the programming of Component Object Model (COM) objects.

Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced from 1995 to 2000, which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS-DOS, both of which were updated in subsequent versions.

Windows 3.1x (codenamed Janus) is a series of 16-bit operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers.

Windows 3.0, a graphical environment, is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, and was released on May 22, 1990.

Windows for Pen Computing is a software suite for Windows 3.

The Windows Insider program by Microsoft allows users who own a valid Windows 10 license to sign up for early builds of the operating system previously only accessible to developers.

Windows Holographic is a mixed reality platform developed by Microsoft, built around the API of Windows 10.

The various versions of Microsoft's desktop operating system, Windows, have received many criticisms since Microsoft's inception.