Experience had shown that even if an operating system was technically superior to Windows, it would be a failure in the market ( BeOS and OS / 2 for example ).

* Creating A Windows Media Custom Experience ( For Webmasters )

* Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines ( for Windows 7 and Windows Vista )

* User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone

This includes Out-Of-Box Experience, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, and others.

The former Chief Experience Officer is known for his historic 1994 memo, " Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet ", about the coming rise of the Internet.

*. GID-the file extension of a Global Index file created by Microsoft Windows to accompany WinHelp (. HLP and. CNT ) files

Various free programs ( among them Red Button, CCleaner, Index. dat Suite ), can completely remove index. dat files until they are recreated by Windows, though CCleaner, and perhaps the others, does not delete the hidden index. dat file in the Temporary Internet Files folder, which contains a copy of the cookies that were in the Cookies folder.

* Windows Networking Team blog about Index. dat ( followup Q & A )

: includes Windows NT Server 4. 0, IIS 2. 0, SQL Server 6. 5, SNA Server 3. 0, SMS 1. 2, Exchange Server 4. 0, Proxy Server 1. 0, Index Server 1. 1, Internet Explorer 3. 01, and FrontPage 1. 1

: includes Windows NT Server 4. 0, IIS 3. 0, SQL Server 6. 5, SNA Server 4. 0, SMS 1. 2, Exchange Server 5. 0, Proxy Server 2. 0, Index Server 2. 0, Transaction Server 2. 0, Site Server 3. 0, FrontPage 98, and Visual InterDev 1. 0.

: includes Windows NT Server 4. 0 SP4, IIS 4. 0, SQL Server 7. 0, SNA Server 4. 0, SMS 2. 0, Exchange Server 5. 5, Proxy Server 2. 0, Index Server 2. 0, Transaction Server 2. 0, Internet Explorer 5. 0, FrontPage 2000, and Visual InterDev 6. 0.

Three days before this event, which Microsoft advertised as " a standard in reliability ," a leaked memo from Microsoft reported on by Mary Jo Foley revealed that Windows 2000 had " over 63, 000 potential known defects.

On learning of her terminal condition she is reported to have said " t least I won't have to buy Windows 95 ".

In a 2007 survey by desktoplinux. com of 38, 500 Linux desktop users, 31. 5 % of respondents reported using Wine to run Windows applications.

This plurality was larger than all x86 virtualization programs combined, as well as larger than the 27. 9 % who reported not running Windows applications.

It was reported that it worked without any problems on Windows NT 3. 5 and with small modifications on OS / 2.

In June 2010, anti-virus security company VirusBlokAda reported the first detection of malware that attacks SCADA systems ( Siemens ' WinCC / PCS7 systems ) running on Windows operating systems.

The historian Paul de Rapin ( 1732 ) reported the Coventry lore that Lady Godiva performed her ride while " commanding all Persons to keep within Doors and from their Windows, on pain of Death " but one man could not refrain from looking and it " cost him his life "; Rapin further reported that the town commemorates this with a " Statue of a Man looking out of a Window.

However, it was reported in October 2007 that spammers had built a Windows game in which users are asked to interpret CAPTCHAs acquired from the Yahoo webmail service, and are rewarded with pornographic pictures.

Nevertheless, Dillo has been reported to work on Windows via Cygwin.

No major compatibility issues have been reported when running SmartSuite or Organizer on the Windows 7 version.

On May 18, 2008, News. com reported that Microsoft had confirmed that current versions of Windows Media Center shipping with the Windows family of operating systems adhered to the use of the broadcast flag, following reports of users being blocked from taping specific airings of NBC programs, mainly American Gladiators and Medium.

Copies of something purporting to be the Windows source have been reported to be available on various file sharing networks.

As of 3 December 2008, it has been reported that Internet cafes in Nanchang, since November 2008, have been required to install the Red Flag Linux as a replacement for pirated versions of the popular Microsoft Windows operating system, or switch to legitimate copies of Microsoft Windows.

On 29 December 2011, Softpedia reported " Also important is the fact that almost every video filter can now be transcoded and it can be ported to mobile operating systems ( Android and iOS ) as well as 64-bit Windows.

However, many modern operating systems implement their memory access-control schemes via paging instead of segmentation, so it is often the case that invalid memory references in operating systems such as Windows are reported via page faults instead of general protection faults.

The concept of the OS-tan is reported to have begun as a personification of the common perception of Windows Me as unstable and prone to frequent crashes.

Akiba PC reported that the first 7777 copies of Japanese Windows 7 Ultimate DSP editions include special wallpaper and sound sets for a character called, voiced by Nana Mizuki.

Infoworld reported in 2005 that a tour of Microsoft's Network operations center " showed pretty much beyond a reasonable doubt that Microsoft does run its 20, 000-plus node, international network on 99 percent Windows technology, including servers, workstations, and edge security.

* Windows zero-day attack works on all Windows systems referring to Advisory 2286198 reported on 16 July 2010

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.

* A Windows Algol Algol running on Vista win64 system by Marcel van der Veer, Algol 68 Genie works on normal Windows up through the latest.

Tridgell was a major developer of the Samba software, analysing the Server Message Block protocol used for workgroup and network file sharing by Microsoft Windows products.

* wma – the popular Windows Media Audio format owned by Microsoft.

Active Directory ( AD ) is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks.

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.

It has been ported to Microsoft Windows and distributed with Cygwin and MinGW, to DOS by the DJGPP project, to Novell NetWare and to Android via various terminal emulation applications.

BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Mac OS and Microsoft Windows ( Linux was not relevant as a desktop OS at the time ).

BadTrans is a malicious Microsoft Windows computer worm distributed by e-mail.

Software can be quite a profitable industry: Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was the richest person in the world in 2009 largely by selling the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office software products.

; Procyon Common Lisp: an implementation for Windows and Mac OS, used by Franz for their Windows port of Allegro CL

Such fixes can be installed by Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, or the motherboard BIOS.

This convention remains in use by several operating systems today, including Microsoft Windows.

For instance, Microsoft Word files are normally created and modified by the Microsoft Word program in response to user commands, but the user can also move, rename, or delete these files directly by using a file manager program such as Windows Explorer ( on Windows computers ) or by command lines ( CLI ).

On Windows computers, extensions consist of a dot ( period ) at the end of a file name, followed by a few letters to identify the type of file.

Some of the more poorly-designed programs can be shut down by killing their processes: for example, in Microsoft Windows through the Windows Task Manager, or in Mac OS X using Force Quit or Activity Monitor.