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History Of Windows Versions

It is first and dos based os from Microsoft released on 20 November 1985

It is 16-bit dos based GUI (Graphical User Interface) OS released on December 9, 1987

It is first Windows OS that allows to roll applications on one another on GUI environment. It is released on May 22, 1990 and followed by Windows 3.1 or Windows 3x.

It is a consumer-oriented GUI based OS. It was integrated with both MS-DOS and Windows products. It was released on August 24, 1995. It was also called as Windows 4 but it was launched in the year 1995, so the name given is Windows 95.

It is also consumer-oriented GUI based OS with multi task advantage from Windows 95. It was also integrated with both MS-DOS and Windows products separately. It was released on June 25, 1998.

It is OS used for both client and server computers and was designed as a early versions of client and server OS which was later separated. It was released on February 17, 2000.

It is the 2nd most popular, user friendly, light weight OS compatible to almost all computers starting with atmost 128 MB of RAM. This was one of the OS that makes Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft) to be count in first 10 richest peoples in the world. It was released on August 24, 2001 with 32 bit and 64 bit variants.

It is the worst, heavy, large RAM consuming and slowing down PC OS ever build by Microsoft. This OS failed after its world wide released on January 30, 2007.

It is the 1st most popular, user friendly, light weight OS recommended for every user in the world for personal and office use. It is released on July 22, 2009.

It is a tile type, fastest, multi threaded and light weight OS ever build by Microsoft. They tried to build OS which will always be connected to internet apps with instant notifications. It was released on

It is upcoming and update version of Windows 8 launching on 17 October, 2013. Microsoft improved the drawbacks such as start button, personalization, search box etc.