Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windies

Windows logo, introduced in 2015.
Company / developer	Microsoft
Written in	Assembly, C, C++
OS faimily	Windows 9x, Windows CE an Windows NT
Wirkin state	Publicly released
Soorce model	Closed / Shared soorce
Initial release	November 20, 1985 (1985-11-20), as Windows 1.0
Mercatin target	Personal computin
Available in	Multilingual (137 languages) but dinnie include Scots
Update method	Windows Update, Windows Anytime Upgrade
Platforms	ARM, IA-32, Itanium, x86-64
Kernel type	Windows NT faimily: Hybrid Windows 9x an earlier: Monolithic (MS-DOS)
Default uiser interface	Windows Shell
License	Proprietary commercial software
Offeecial wabsteid	windows.microsoft.com

Microsoft Windies (Inglish: Windows) is a series o graphical interface operatin seestems developed, marketed, an sauld bi Microsoft.

Microsoft introduced an operatin environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as a graphical operatin seestem shell for MS-DOS in response tae the growin interest in graphical uiser interfaces (GUI). Microsoft Windies came tae dominate the warld's personal computer merkat wi ower 90% merkat share, owertakin Mac OS, which haed been introduced in 1984.

As o September 2013, the maist recent versions o Windies for personal computers, mobile devices, server computers an embeddit devices are respectively Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Windows Server 2012 an Windows Embedded 8.