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microsoft windows - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Microsoft Windows
  MS-Windows
  
     <operating system> Microsoft's proprietary window system
     and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top
     of MS-DOS.  Widely criticised for being too slow (hence
     "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available
     then.
  
     The 1996 market share of operating systems was:
  
      DOS/Windows	70%
      Windows 95	15%
      Windows NT	 2%
      Other		13%
  
     [Current shares?]
  
     The version history goes something like: 1985 Windows 1,
     1987 Windows 2, 1987 Windows/386, 1990 Windows 3.0, 1992
     Windows 3.1, 1992 Windows for Workgroups 3.1, 1993
     Windows 3.11, 1993 Windows for Workgroups 3.11, 1993
     Windows NT 3.1, 1994 Windows NT 3.5, 1995 Windows 95,
     199? Windows NT 4, 1998 Windows 98, ? Windows NT 5.
  
     Usenet newsgroups:
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.comp.os.ms-windows.announce,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win3x,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.mail,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.news,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.announce,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.backoffice,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.compatibility,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.services,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.pre-release,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.winsock,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.vxd,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win3x,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.video,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,
     news:comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,
     news:comp.binaries.ms-windows.
  
     (1998-10-15)