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Windows 1.0

• The graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft. The first mass-produced personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) that enabled users to see user friendly icons on screen. It was released on November 20, 1985, as the first version of the Microsoft Windows line.
• Version of Windows noted for the Metro interface. This interface displays a collection of tiles rather than a traditional desktop environment.
• The operating system produced by Microsoft, it was designed to replace both Windows Me and Windows 2000. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and broadly released for retail sale on October 25, 2001.
• The third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched in 1990. Like its predecessors, it is not an operating system, but rather a graphical operating environment that runs on top of DOS. It features a new graphical user interface (GUI) where applications are represented as clickable icons, as opposed to the list of file names seen in its predecessors.

Windows 3.0

• The operating system produced by Microsoft, it was designed to replace both Windows Me and Windows 2000. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and broadly released for retail sale on October 25, 2001.
• The third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched in 1990. Like its predecessors, it is not an operating system, but rather a graphical operating environment that runs on top of DOS. It features a new graphical user interface (GUI) where applications are represented as clickable icons, as opposed to the list of file names seen in its predecessors.
• It succeeded Windows 10 and is available for free for any Windows 10 devices that meet the new system requirements. It features major changes to the Windows shell influenced by the canceled Windows 10X, including a redesigned Start menu, the replacement of its "live tiles" with a separate "Widgets" panel on the taskbar, the ability to create tiled sets of windows that can be minimized and restored from the taskbar as a group, and new gaming technologies.
• The graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft. The first mass-produced personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) that enabled users to see user friendly icons on screen. It was released on November 20, 1985, as the first version of the Microsoft Windows line.

Windows XP

• The third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched in 1990. Like its predecessors, it is not an operating system, but rather a graphical operating environment that runs on top of DOS. It features a new graphical user interface (GUI) where applications are represented as clickable icons, as opposed to the list of file names seen in its predecessors.
• It succeeded Windows 10 and is available for free for any Windows 10 devices that meet the new system requirements. It features major changes to the Windows shell influenced by the canceled Windows 10X, including a redesigned Start menu, the replacement of its "live tiles" with a separate "Widgets" panel on the taskbar, the ability to create tiled sets of windows that can be minimized and restored from the taskbar as a group, and new gaming technologies.
• The operating system produced by Microsoft, it was designed to replace both Windows Me and Windows 2000. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and broadly released for retail sale on October 25, 2001.
• Version of Windows noted for the Metro interface. This interface displays a collection of tiles rather than a traditional desktop environment.

Windows 8

• The third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched in 1990. Like its predecessors, it is not an operating system, but rather a graphical operating environment that runs on top of DOS. It features a new graphical user interface (GUI) where applications are represented as clickable icons, as opposed to the list of file names seen in its predecessors.
• It succeeded Windows 10 and is available for free for any Windows 10 devices that meet the new system requirements. It features major changes to the Windows shell influenced by the canceled Windows 10X, including a redesigned Start menu, the replacement of its "live tiles" with a separate "Widgets" panel on the taskbar, the ability to create tiled sets of windows that can be minimized and restored from the taskbar as a group, and new gaming technologies.
• Version of Windows noted for the Metro interface. This interface displays a collection of tiles rather than a traditional desktop environment.
• The operating system produced by Microsoft, it was designed to replace both Windows Me and Windows 2000. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and broadly released for retail sale on October 25, 2001.

Windows 11

• The third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched in 1990. Like its predecessors, it is not an operating system, but rather a graphical operating environment that runs on top of DOS. It features a new graphical user interface (GUI) where applications are represented as clickable icons, as opposed to the list of file names seen in its predecessors.
• Version of Windows noted for the Metro interface. This interface displays a collection of tiles rather than a traditional desktop environment.
• The graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft. The first mass-produced personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) that enabled users to see user friendly icons on screen. It was released on November 20, 1985, as the first version of the Microsoft Windows line.
• It succeeded Windows 10 and is available for free for any Windows 10 devices that meet the new system requirements. It features major changes to the Windows shell influenced by the canceled Windows 10X, including a redesigned Start menu, the replacement of its "live tiles" with a separate "Widgets" panel on the taskbar, the ability to create tiled sets of windows that can be minimized and restored from the taskbar as a group, and new gaming technologies.