Since Java's bytecode is platform-independent, Java applets can be executed by browsers running under many platforms, including Windows, Unix, Mac OS, and Linux.

* Microsoft Windows contains application compatibility shims to make the platform compatible with most software from earlier 32-bit and 16-bit versions ( e. g. Civilization ( circa 1991, designed for Windows 3. 0 ) running on Windows Vista ).

" SBCL runs on the platforms CMUCL does, except HP / UX ; in addition, it runs on Linux for AMD64, PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS, Windows x86 and has experimental support for running on Windows AMD64.

These are more compliant with Unix terminal standards and user interface conventions than the Cygwin console, but are less suited for running Windows console programs.

* On a computer running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix running the X Window System, clicking the secondary mouse button ( usually the right button ) opens a context menu for the region that is under the mouse pointer.

However, the battle was in vain, as neither platform captured a significant share of the world computer market and only the Apple Macintosh would survive the industry-wide shift to Microsoft Windows running on PC clones.

Screenshot of Frost running on Microsoft Windows

All Windows and DOS-based applications at the time were real mode, running over the protected mode kernel by using the virtual 8086 mode, which was new with the 80386 processor.

The aim of WinFLP is to give companies a viable upgrade option for older PCs that are running Windows 95, 98, and Me that will be supported with patches and updates for the next several years.

The desktop interface is also present for running windowed applications, although Windows RT will not run any desktop applications not included in the system.

On the Building Windows 8 blog, it was announced that a computer running Windows 8 can boot up much faster than Windows 7.

Id was responsible for some of the biggest technological breakthroughs of video game technology for the PC ( running DOS and Windows ).

As of 2011, The bank moved to virtualize and renew their infrastructure by moving OS / 2 to Virtual Machines running over Windows.

Incidentally, the Automatic Ticket Counters with OS / 2 were more reliable than the current ones running a flavor of Windows.

* Microsoft ActiveSync, used by Windows XP and older Windows operating systems to synchronize with Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, and Windows CE PDAs, as well as PDAs running iOS, Palm OS, and Symbian

There is one major uncompressed audio format, PCM, which is usually stored in a. wav file on Windows or in a. aiff file on Mac OS.

* How to install AMOS BASIC on Windows in under 30 seconds

Borland had had an internal project to clone dBASE which was intended to run on Windows and was part of the strategy of the acquisition, but by late 1992 this was abandoned due to technical flaws and the company had to constitute a replacement team ( the ObjectVision team, redeployed ) headed by Bill Turpin to redo the job.

By the time dBASE for Windows eventually shipped, the developer community had moved on to other products such as Clipper or FoxBase and dBASE never regained significant share of Ashton-Tate's former market.

EFI booting has been supported in only Microsoft Windows versions supporting GPT, the Linux kernel 2. 6. 1 and later, and Mac OS X on Intel-based Macs.

BDB can support thousands of simultaneous threads of control or concurrent processes manipulating databases as large as 256 terabytes, on a wide variety of operating systems including most Unix-like and Windows systems, and real-time operating systems.

Application software usually runs on an underlying software operating systems such as Linux or Microsoft Windows.

* Simplified Cangjie ( 簡易倉頡, known as 速成 on Windows systems )

* Enabling International Support in Windows XP / Server 2003 Family, a Microsoft tutorial on how to install input methods on Windows XP.

; CLISP: A bytecode-compiling implementation, portable and runs on a number of Unix and Unix-like systems ( including Mac OS X ), as well as Microsoft Windows and several other systems.

As that history implies, CCL was written for the Macintosh, but Clozure CL now runs on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and Windows.

GCL runs on Linux under eleven different architectures, and also under Windows, Solaris, and FreeBSD.

Microsoft dropped support for APM in Windows Vista.

* Boot Configuration Data, a computing term for the boot loader of Windows Vista

Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system also includes content-control software.

In Windows Vista and Windows 7 ClearType is turned on by default.

Those games can be played on all major browsers and they can also be ported to Widgets for Mac OS X and Gadgets for Windows Vista, which are based on DHTML code.

* Windows Display Driver Model ( WDDM ) – the graphic display driver architecture for Windows Vista

* CNG API in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 with managed wrappers for CNG in. NET Framework 3. 5

Newer versions of popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer on Windows Vista implement the Online Certificate Status Protocol ( OCSP ) to verify that this is not the case.

Support for SNI is available since Firefox 2, Opera 8, Safari 2. 1, Google Chrome 6, and Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista.

Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

Windows XP lasted longer as Microsoft's flagship operating system than any other version of Windows, from 25 October 2001 to 30 January 2007 when it was succeeded by Windows Vista.

Windows Vista Desktop

Windows Vista has the Aero theme

Windows Vista was released on 8 November 2006 to business customers, consumer versions following on 30 January 2007.