MS-Windows

Microsoft Windows
MS-Windows

   <operating system> {Microsoft}'s proprietary {window system}
   and {user interface} software released in 1985 to run on top
   of {MS-DOS}.  Widely criticised for being too slow (hence
   "{Windoze}", "{Microsloth Windows}") on the machines available
   then.

   The 1996 market share of operating systems was:

    DOS/Windows	70%
    Windows 95	15%
    Windows NT	 2%
    Other		13%

   [Current shares?]

   The version history goes something like: 1985 {Windows 1},
   1987 {Windows 2}, 1987 {Windows/386}, 1990 {Windows 3.0}, 1992
   {Windows 3.1}, 1992 {Windows for Workgroups 3.1}, 1993
   {Windows 3.11}, 1993 {Windows for Workgroups 3.11}, 1993
   {Windows NT 3.1}, 1994 {Windows NT 3.5}, 1995 {Windows 95},
   199? {Windows NT 4}, 1998 {Windows 98}, ? {Windows NT 5}.

   {Usenet} newsgroups:
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.comp.os.ms-windows.announce,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win3x,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.mail,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.news,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.announce,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.backoffice,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.compatibility,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.services,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.pre-release,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.winsock,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.vxd,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win3x,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.video,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,
   news:comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,
   news:comp.binaries.ms-windows.

   (1998-10-15)