Happy birthday to Windows
20 November 1985 – for some
memorable date because it has started the development of the most
popular operating system. For others, this is the date of disaster for
computer world. No matter what is our opinion about products from
Microsoft, we have to admit that they have enrolled in the history of
IT. Ladies and gentlemen – Windows celebrated thirtieth birthday!!!
It started with Windows 1.0, of course, but hardly anyone remembers it. Windows were ugly, but you were able to use the mouse. For us, Windows 3.11
is the oldest remembered version. It was even installed on our
computers. There were 16 colors and 640×480 resolution. However, Windows had its worse versions those that have made a lot of users gone. In our case, we can never decide whether it was Millennium Edition or Vista. Both systems were so terrible that a lot of users have decided to use Linux. Now, only the Windows 10
somehow caught people’s attention. I do not know if this is really the
case that Windows to were already so bad that it left a rather bad taste
because of incorrect projects. However, Windows XP and Windows 7 versions have a lot of fans. Bah! Windows 7 is still the most popular operating system on the IT market.
Therefore, how does it look in the span of this 30 years? Here we have prepared for you a list of operating systems released by Microsoft.
| Release date | Name | Version | End of support | IE version |
| November 1985 | Windows 1.01 | 1.01 | – | N/A |
| November 1987 | Windows 2.03 | 2.03 | – | N/A |
| March 1989 | Windows 2.11 | 2.11 | – | N/A |
| May 1990 | Windows 3.0 | 3.0 | – | N/A |
| March 1992 | Windows 3.1 | 3.1 | – | 5 |
| October 1992 | Windows For Workgroups 3.1 | 3.1 | – | 5 |
| July 1993 | Windows NT 3.1 | NT 3.1 | – | 5 |
| December 1993 | Windows For Workgroups 3.11 | 3.11 | – | 5 |
| January 1994 | Windows 3.2 (wydany tylko w języku chińskim) | 3.2 | – | 5 |
| September 1994 | Windows NT 3.5 | NT 3.5 | – | 5 |
| May 1995 | Windows NT 3.51 | NT 3.51 | – | 5 |
| August 1995 | Windows 95 | 4.0.950 | – | 5 |
| July 1996 | Windows NT 4.0 | NT 4.0 | – | 6 |
| June 1998 | Windows 98 | 4.10.1998 | – | 6 |
| May 1999 | Windows 98 SE | 4.10.2222 | – | 6 |
| February 2000 | Windows 2000 | NT 5.0.3700.6690 | – | 6 |
| September 2000 | Windows Me | 4.90.3000 | – | 6 |
| October 2001 | Windows XP | NT 5.1.2600 | – | 8 |
| March 2003 | Windows XP 64-bit Edition | NT 5.2.3790 | – | 8 |
| April 2003 | Windows Server 2003 | NT 5.2.3790 | – | 8 |
| April 2005 | Windows XP Professional x64 Edition | NT 5.2.3790 | – | 8 |
| July 2006 | Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs | NT 5.1.2600 | – | – |
| November 2006 (business customers) January 2007 (individual customers) |
Windows Vista | RTM-
NT 6.0.6000 SP1- NT 6.0.6001 SP2- NT 6.0.6002 |
11 April 2017 | 9 |
| July 2007 | Windows Home Server | NT 5.2.3790 | – | 9 |
| February 2008 | Windows Server 2008 | NT 6.0.6001 | 14 January 2020 | 9 |
| 22 October 2009 | Windows 7 | RTM-
NT 6.1.7600 SP1- NT 6.1.7601 |
14 January 2020 | 11 |
| 22 October 2009 | Windows Server 2008 R2 | NT 6.1.7600 | 14 January 2020 | 11 |
| 4 September 2012 | Windows Server 2012 | NT 6.2.9200 | 10 January 2023 | 11 |
| 26 October 2012 | Windows 8 | NT 6.2.9200 | 10 January 2023 | 11 |
| 18 October 2013 | Windows Server 2012 R2 | NT 6.3.9600 | 10 January 2023 | 11 |
| 29 July 2015 | Windows 10 | NT 10.0.10240 | 14 October 2025 | 11 (the latest version of Internet Explorer) |
As we wrote in one of his articles, interesting is also the time that Microsoft was strongly financing Apple.
Maybe if they were more focused on their own systems, then a list of
products was not so long, but with better quality products. Anyway: Happy Birthday Windows !!!
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