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Windows

Windows

A family of operating systems developed by Microsoft, which uses a graphical user interface (GUI) instead of a command line one.

Windows is a generic term encompassing all the different versions of Windows released by Microsoft and includes:

Windows Vista
Windows 2003 Server
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home
Windows 2000 Server - collectively known as Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 Professional - collectively known as Windows 2000
Windows NT 4 Server - collectively known as Windows NT.
Windows NT 4 Workstation - collectively known as Windows NT
Windows NT 3.5 - collectively known as Windows NT
Windows ME - collectively known as Windows 9x
Windows 98 - collectively known as Windows 9x
Windows 95 - collectively known as Windows 9x
Windows 3.11 - also known as Windows for Workgroups (WFW)
Windows 3.1 - Windows 3, 3.1 and 3.11 are also collectively referred to as Windows 3.x
Windows 3

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