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The evolution of Microsoft Windows ©

The evolution of Microsoft Windows ©

MSDOS

MicroSoft Disk Operating System 1.0 (MS-DOS 1.0) was released in 1981.....
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Wondows 3.0 & 3.1

Released in 1990 Microsoft Windows 3.0 was a revolutionary operating system...
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Windows NT

In 1993 Microsoft released their first verion of Windows NT...
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Windows 95

Released in August 1995 Windows 95 added major enhancements...
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Windows 98

Microsoft Windows 98 is the upgrade to Microsoft Windows 95...

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Windows 2000 Professional

Released in February 2000 Windows 2000 Professional was the latest...
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Windows ME

Windows Millennium also known as Windows ME was introduced September 14...
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Windows XP home & Windows XP Professional

Released in October 2001, Microsoft Windows XP is short for Windows Experienced and is the convergence of the two major Microsoft operating system lines into one. Win95/98/ME & NT/2000

Windows XP is designed more for users who may not be familiar with all of Windows features and has several new abilities to make the Windows experience more easy for those users.

Windows XP includes various new features not found in previous versions of Microsoft Windows.

Below is a listing of some of these new features.

  • New interface - a completely new look and ability to change the look.
  • Updates - new feature that automatically obtains updates fro the Internet.
  • Internet Explorer 6 - Includes internet explorer 6 and new IM.
  • Multilingual support - added support for different languages.

In addition to the above features, Windows XP does increase reliability when compared to previous versions of Microsoft Windows.

The major difference between Windows XP Home & Windows XP proffessional is that XP proffessional offers all of XP Home but with proffessional networking caperbilitis and tools for the corperate environment.

It is not possible to network correctly with XP Home, it does not support the corperate domain and lacks the abilty to apply group policies.

Microsoft Windows Vista

The new version of windows released in July 2005 for Beta testing in the community

Read more on Windows Vista from the Microsoft Windows Vista Web Site


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