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used with the DOS operative system, and allowed the millions of
users around to world to access to a graphic interface, based in
the windows concept (a window represents an executed task or one
been executed)
This product is the responsible for the fact that Gates and
Allen have ensured their country a pass into history and their
constant influence in the computing world. But
Windows is not a
stuck product, since the end of the eighties until nowadays,
there have been more than 10 versions, which shows the constant
updating and research Microsoft investigates regarding the
user’s needs.
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Windows is also a trademark that represents a wide range of
operative systems designed, developed and commercialized
exclusively by Microsoft; in the current market there are
versions especially developed for users in their homes,
companies, servers and mobile devices (Notebooks,
3G mobile
phones). Window’s influence in the computing development has
caused that most programs (software or applications) are been
developed thinking in this particular operative system, this
happens in both, commercial and free programs. |
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At a start, the first versions were simply a graphic environment
for the DOS operative system (since the version launched in 1985
until the version 3.11) since WINDOWS 95 (boom sales with this
version), there has already been stated an operative system with
multitask functionality and the possibility of having more than
one user. What is Windows characterized for? It is characterized
for the massive presence of icons and for been the vehicle for a
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Along the years, many versions of Windows have been developed,
until the arrival of the Windows NT, designed for professional
environments, or the Windows CE, special for Notebooks of
reduced dimensions. This is a list of the developed versions:
1985 : Windows 1.01
1986 : Windows 1.03
1987 : Windows 2.03
1988 : Windows 2.1
1990 :Windows 3.0
1992 : Windows 3.1
1992 : Windows For Workgroups 3.1
1993 : Microsoft Bob
1993 : Windows NT 3.1
1993 : Windows For Workgroups 3.11
1994 : Windows NT 3.5
1994 : Windows NT 3.51
1995 : Windows 95
1996 : Windows NT 4.0
1998 : Windows 98
2000 : Windows 2000
2000 : Windows ME
2001 : Windows XP
2006 :
Windows Vista
2009 : Windows 7
Nowadays, Windows is one of the products with greater sales at a
worldwide level; it holds almost 90% of the operative systems in
the international market. That is the main explanation for which
for many users, Windows is a synonym of operative system,
leaving other options aside since the Free Software movement. It
should be remembered that Windows is an operative system that
stands out for been very easy to use for anyone, which brings it
near to the users.
There is a recurrent problem in Windows’ versions: Safety.
Security failures produced in Windows are now the main source of
questioning, by their competitors, regarding the dominance of
this operative system. Microsoft, in order to be able of solving
this situation, has had to turn to the development of posterior
security updates (even published monthly), and they also have
had to develop readjustments in the different versions of
Windows (specially in versions which were launched after Windows
98) called Service Packs or Patches.
Finally, in other aspects, been such a popular product has
brought as a consequence that many hackers (computing pirates)
have turned Windows into a target which is vulnerable through
their security mistakes. On the other hand, the new wave of the
Free Software has become a source of strong criticism for
Microsoft, due to the controversies regarding the publication of
Window’s source code.
Summing up, loved or hated, Windows is an operative system that
has made its way through computing, and that is currently
resisting to be part of the past, as they are showing with their
newest version that will be in the market before the end of
2009, the Windows 7.
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