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Microsoft Windows is an operating system created by Microsoft Corporation. One of its major strengths is the massive library of games it can run, by virtue of DirectX; one of its major downsides is the rampant security issues the OS ecosystem as a whole suffers from, in addition to the increasingly-invasive telemetry gathered by later consumer editions.
In the most basic terms possible, Microsoft Windows is a graphical-orientated operating system that is able to, within reason, maintain compatibility with software designed to run on previous iterations. More recent editions, such as Windows XP have been targeted at the growing popularity of networking, home multimedia, and wireless capability. The majority of PC-developed video games are primarily coded for Microsoft's Windows graphical API DirectX.
Logos
- Windows logo - 2002.svg.png
2001-2007
Consumer-orientated Versions
- Windows 1.0
- Windows 2.0
- Windows 3.0
- Windows 3.1
- Windows 3.11
- Windows 3.2
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows 98 Second Edition
- Windows Me
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10
Business-orientated Versions
- Windows for Workgroups 3.1
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- Windows NT 3.1
- Windows NT 3.5
- Windows NT 3.51
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 2000
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2003 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2012
Mobile Versions
- Windows CE
- Windows Mobile
- Windows RT
See also
- List of Microsoft Windows games
- List of Microsoft Windows peripherals