Microsoft Windows Family

   Date   -    Version

  1981 Sept. - Interface Manager

  1983 - Windows was announced

  1985 Nov. - Windows 1.0 for 8088 CPUs released

  1987 Dec. - Windows 2.0 for 386 CPUs, up to 16 mbyte RAM adressable

  1988/89 - Windows 2.1 for 286/386

  1990 - Windows 3.0

  1992 April - 3.1 (janus) includes MS-DOS 5.0

  1993 Nov. - Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (snowball) rudimentarily networkable

  1995 Aug. - Windows 95 4.0 Codename "Chicago" was released

  1996 Feb. - Windows 95 Version A (OSR1)

  1996 Aug. - Windows 95 (detroit) Version B (OSR2) first time with FAT-32 support

  1997 April - Windows 95 Version B (OSR2.1)

  1997 Nov. - Windows 95 Version C (OSR2.5)

  1998 June - Windows 98 (memphis) about 5,000 bugs fixed

  1999 May - Windows 98 SE (Second Edition)

  2000 Sept. - Windows Me (Millenium)

  1980 Aug. - XENIX OS cooperation with SCO

  1982 Feb. - XENIX 2.3 cooperation with SCO

  1983 April - XENIX 3.0 cooperation with SCO

  1987 - MS OS/2 1.0 cooperation with IBM

  1988 - OS/2 1.1 cooperation with IBM

  1991 - OS/2 1.3 cooperation with IBM

  1992 - OS/2 2.0 cooperation with IBM

  1993 July - Windows NT 3.1 & Advanced Server; 3.1 million lines of source code, supports HPFS

  1994 Sept. - Windows NT 3.5 (daytona), Workstation and Server, with opengl and Netware client; 9 million lines of source code

  1995 May - Windows NT 3.51, updae, transparent compression with NTFS file system, PCMCIA support, for Power-PCs available too

  1996 Aug. - Windows NT 4.0 (cairo) 16 million lines of source code, no support for HPFS anymore

  1996 - Windows NT Terminal Server Edition (hydra)

  1997 - Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition

  1998 - Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition

  2000 Feb. - Windows 2000, Windows version 5.0; 30 million lines of source code, about 10,000 bugs fixed

  2000 Sept. - 2000 Datacenter Server

  2001 Oct. - Windows XP (whistler), Windows version 5.1

  2002 - Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

  2003 April - Windows Server 2003 version 5.2 (whistler server)

  2006 - Windows Vista, Windows version 6.0, Codename Longhorn (Client)

  2006 June - Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (Windows CCS 2003)

  2008 Feb. - Windows Server 2008 (Codename Longhorn)

  2007 July - Windows Home Server 1.0

  2009 Oct. - Windows 7 (Codename Vienna)

  2012 Oct. 26 - Windows 8

  2013 Oct. 18 - Windows 8.1 (Codename Blue)

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