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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and with the release of the latter the domain controller role was renamed Active Directory Domain Services.

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.

WordPerfect itself was struggling with a late and troubled transition to Windows.

The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows ( a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Paradox database ) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show.

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 ).

BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something to tinker with.

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.

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

The next step was to attempt to bootstrap the compiler on a Windows system, requiring sufficient emulation of Unix to let the GNU configure shell script run.

By 1996, other engineers had joined in, because it was clear that Cygwin would be a useful way to provide Cygnus ' embedded tools hosted on Windows systems ( the previous strategy had been to use DJGPP ).

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.

ClearType was later introduced as an operating system feature in Windows XP, where it was kept turned off by default.

* Windows Nashville, Microsoft codename for the canceled Windows 96 operating system

The game was also scheduled for a Windows PC release in Japan in 2004, although this port was subsequently canceled as well.

A beta driver with OpenGL support was once leaked by Nvidia but was canceled later, and there is no Windows 2000 driver for RIVA 128 on Nvidia's driver site today.

Intergraph did work on a version of Microsoft Windows NT for Clipper systems and publicly demonstrated it, but this effort was canceled before release.

A Windows version slated for release in 1996 was canceled.

A Windows version was planned, but was canceled.

Windows XP SP1 was released in September 2002, SP2 came out in August 2004 and SP3 came out in April 2008.

* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, released on 25 April 2005 for home and workstation systems utilizing 64-bit processors based on the x86-64 instruction set developed by AMD as AMD64 ; Intel calls their version Intel 64

On 25 April 2003 Microsoft launched Windows Server 2003, a notable update to Windows 2000 Server encompassing many new security features, a new " Manage Your Server " wizard that simplifies configuring a machine for specific roles, and improved performance.

On 25 April 2005, Microsoft released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003, x64 Editions in Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter SKUs.

Windows Home Server 2011 code named ' Vail ' was released on 6 April 2011.

In April 2008, SGI re-entered the visualization market with the SGI Virtu range of visualization servers and workstations, which were re-badged systems from BOXX Technologies based on Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processors and Nvidia Quadro graphics chipsets, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Windows Compute Cluster Server.

It was succeeded by Windows XP for desktop systems in October 2001 and Windows Server 2003 for servers in April 2003.

On April 16, 2012, Microsoft announced that Windows Media Player would not be included in Windows RT, the line of Windows designed to run on ARM based devices.

Tech journalist Harry McCracken called the story " a delightfully urban legend-y tale " and noted its similarities to an April Fools ' Day joke claiming Bob was hidden in Windows Vista.

Pocket PC 2000 was launched April 2000, and ran Windows CE 3. 0.

Beta 3 was released on April 11, 2000, and this version marked the first appearance of its final version startup and shutdown sounds ( derived from Windows 2000 ), as the previous betas used Windows 98's startup and shutdown sounds.

The final version of DirectX available for Windows Me is DirectX 9. 0c, which was released on 7 April 2006.

* Windows 2000 & 32-bit Windows XP: 71. 89 released on April 14, 2005 ; Download.

* Outlook Express 6. 0 SP3 was included in Windows XP Service Pack 3 ( April 2008 ).

* Windows 2000 & 32-bit Windows XP: 71. 89 released on April 14, 2005 ; Download.

Microsoft announced in April 2009 that Microsoft Agent support will be discontinued after Windows 7.

On April 3, 2005, eight months after the release of Doom 3, id Software released an expansion pack for Doom 3 on Windows.