Saturday, November 15, 2014
Microsoft Windows or Windows is a super family of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
It consists of several families of operating systems, each of which cater to a
certain sector of the computing industry. Active Windows families include Windows NT, Windows Embedded and Windows
Phone; these may encompass subfamilies, e.g. Windows
Embedded Compact (Windows CE) or Windows Server. Defunct Windows
families include Windows 9x and Windows
Mobile.
Microsoft
introduced an operating
environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as a graphical operating system shelf or MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in
1984. However, it is outsold by Android on smartphones and tablets.
As of
April 2014, the most recent versions of Windows for personal computers, smartphones, server computers and embedded devices are respectively Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows
Embedded 8. A specialized version of Windows runs on the Xbox One game console.
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