Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows (fae the Inglis Windies) is a series o graphical interface operatin seestems developt, merkatit, an selt bi Microsoft.

Microsoft Windows

Windows logo, introduced in 2021.
Company / developer	Microsoft
Written in	Assembly, C, C++[1]
OS faimily	Windows 9x, Windows CE an Windows NT
Wirkin state	Publicly released
Soorce model	Closed / Shared soorce
Initial release	November 20, 1985; 39 years ago (1985-11-20), as Windows 1.0
Mercatin target	Personal computin
Available in	Multilingual (137 languages)[2]
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 introduced an operatin environment named Windows on 20 November 1985 as a graphical operatin system shell for MS-DOS in repon tae the grawin interest in graphical uiser interfaces (GUI).^[3] Microsoft Windies came tae dominate the warld's personal computer merkat wi ower 90% merkat share, owertakin Mac OS, that haed been introduced in 1984.

As o January 2025^[update], the maist recent versions o Windies for personal computers, mobile devices, server computers an embeddit devices are respectively Windows 11, Windows 10 Mobile, an Windows Server 2025.