* Windows 2000 or later, CE, Mobile

Then Windows 2000 Server edition, and revised to extend functionality and improve administration in Windows Server 2003.

Operating systems that supported Alpha included OpenVMS ( previously known as OpenVMS AXP ), Tru64 UNIX ( previously known as DEC OSF / 1 AXP and Digital UNIX ), Windows NT ( until 4. 0 SP6 and Windows 2000 RC1 ), GNU / Linux ( Debian GNU / Linux, Gentoo Linux and Red Hat Linux ), BSD UNIX ( NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD up to 6. x ), as well as the L4Ka :: Pistachio kernel.

A Microsoft Windows ( 2000 or newer ) port was made available starting with the 2. 2. 0 series.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

This problem plagued the NT line all the way through Windows 2000.

Microsoft released Windows 2000 in February 2000.

Windows 2000 is also the last NT-kernel Windows operating system to lack product activation.

While Windows 2000 upgrades were available for Windows 95 and Windows 98, it was not intended for home users.

Windows 2000 was available in six editions:

* Windows 2000 Professional

* Windows 2000 Server

* Windows 2000 Advanced Server

* Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

* Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition

* Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Limited Edition

In September 2000, Microsoft introduced Windows Me ( Millennium Edition ), which upgraded Windows 98 with enhanced multimedia and Internet features from Windows 2000.

The first Windows NT-based operating system to receive AGP support was Windows NT 4. 0 with service pack 3, introduced in 1997.

Active Directory was previewed in 1999, released first with Windows NT server.

** Windows NT and successors have various subsystems to run legacy applications.

* The Solaris API for handling access control lists ( ACLs ) is supported and maps to the Windows NT ACL system.

Cygwin began in 1995 as a project of Steve Chamberlain, a Cygnus engineer who observed that Windows NT and 95 used COFF as their object file format, and that GNU already included support for x86 and COFF, and the C library newlib.

BIND was ported to the Windows NT platform in the early 1990s.

* Installable File System ( IFS ) – a filesystem API for IBM OS / 2 and Microsoft Windows NT

For example, EDLIN in early MS-DOS versions and 32-bit versions of Windows NT has a somewhat similar syntax, and text editors in many MUDs ( LPMud and descendants, for example ) use ed-like syntax.

However, Edlin is included in 32-bit versions of Windows NT, since NTVDM's DOS support is based on MS-DOS version 5. 0.

FCPLib supports Windows NT / 2K / XP, Debian, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X.

The Windows NT family started with Windows NT 3. 1 in 1993.

Modern Windows operating system versions are based on the newer Windows NT kernel that was originally intended for OS / 2.

Microsoft is also working to bring Windows NT onto ARM in the next release of Windows.

With Windows NT 4. 0 in 1996, the shell changed from Program Manager to Windows Explorer.

IBM continued to develop OS / 2, while Microsoft changed the name of its ( as yet unreleased ) OS / 2 3. 0 to Windows NT.

Both retained the rights to use OS / 2 and Windows technology developed up to the termination of the agreement ; Windows NT, however, was to be written anew, mostly independently ( see below ).

Also, a new version of Asteroids was developed for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Windows, and the Game Boy Color in the late 1990s.

Microsoft first introduced AGP support into Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 ( OSR2 version 1111 or 950B ) via the USB SUPPLEMENT to OSR2 patch.

After applying the patch the Windows 95 system became Windows 95 version 4. 00. 950 B.

Worst of all, the highest revenue earner of the combined company was dBASE with no Windows version ready.

* A Cygwin-specific version of the Unix mount command allows Windows paths to be mounted as " filesystems " in the Unix file space.

The version of gcc that comes with Cygwin has various extensions for creating Windows DLLs, specifying whether a program is a windowing or console mode program, adding resources, etc.

* Windows CE, a version of the Windows operating system designed for mobile devices

This was a version of Windows 2. 1 adapted for the 80386 processor.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

Version 0. 7. 5 also shipped with a new version of the Windows installer.

Opera was somewhat faster, but it was proprietary software distributed in trialware and adware versions, both of which lacked some of the functionality of the Microsoft Windows version.

However, due to the prevalence of 3dfx hardware at the time of release, the Windows version of the game installs an OpenGL ICD ( opengl32. dll ) designed specifically for 3dfx's hardware.

The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1. 0, released on 20 November 1985, achieved little popularity.

The first version of Microsoft Windows included a simple graphics painting program called Windows Paint ; Windows Write, a simple word processor ; an appointment " calendar "; a " cardfiler "; a " notepad "; a " clock "; a " control panel "; a " computer terminal "; " Clipboard "; and RAM driver.

Microsoft Windows version 2 came out on 9 December 1987, and proved slightly more popular than its predecessor.

Much of the popularity for Windows 2. 0 came by way of its inclusion as a " run-time version " with Microsoft's new graphical applications, Excel and Word for Windows.

Microsoft Windows received a major boost around this time when Aldus PageMaker appeared in a Windows version, having previously run only on Macintosh.