* 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.

Microsoft dropped support for APM in Windows Vista.

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

* 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 ).

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.

The Local Procedure Call ( LPC, often also referred to as Lightweight Procedure Call or Local Inter-Process Communication ) is an internal, undocumented inter-process communication facility provided by the Microsoft Windows NT kernel for lightweight IPC between processes on the same computer.

The ( A ) LPC interface is part of Windows NT's undocumented Native API, and as such is not available to applications for direct use.

* by calling Windows API which use ( A ) LPC ( see below )

( A ) LPC is used heavily in communication between internal subsystems in Windows NT.

Quick LPC was introduced in version 3. 51 of Windows NT to make these calls faster.

A legal, out-of-the-box installer has been created for Microsoft Windows using WinUAE.

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.

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.

" 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.

It has undergone numerous revisions for various platforms ( including Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, PlayStation, N-Gage and Super Nintendo ) and now exists in several versions.

Initial mount points can be configured in, which has a very similar format as on Unix systems, except that Windows paths appear in place of devices.

Cygwin 1. 5 represented them as Windows Explorer shortcuts, but this has been changed for reasons of performance and POSIX correctness.

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.

* In Microsoft Windows, pressing the Application key or Shift + F10 opens a context menu for the region that has focus.

The X initial has been carried forward in the naming of APIs designed for the Xbox such as XInput and the Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool ( XACT ), while the DirectX pattern has been continued for Windows APIs such as Direct2D and DirectWrite.

Duke Nukem 3D has been ported to run on modern Microsoft Windows variants including Windows XP and Windows 7.

Microsoft has attempted to reduce system instability due to poorly written device drivers by creating a new framework for driver development, called Windows Driver Foundation ( WDF ).

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.

Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

It has the version number Windows NT 5. 0.

Windows Vista has the version number NT 6. 0.

Windows 7 has the version number NT 6. 1.

Microsoft has said that Windows Server 2012 was available on 4 September 2012 and Windows 8 will be available on October 26, 2012.

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 ).

Doom became a " killer app " that all capable consoles and operating systems were expected to have, and versions of Doom have subsequently been released for the following systems: DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Super NES, Sega 32X, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Symbian OS, RISC OS, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Tapwave Zodiac, 3DO, Xbox, and Xbox Live Arcade.

( its predecessor having been built on Windows Server 2003 ) and only supports x86-64 hardware.

The Amstrad PCW's bundled word processing software, LocoScript, used the term " in limbo " to refer to files which had been deleted but which could still be restored, a concept similar to that later implemented by the Trash in the Apple Macintosh and the Recycle Bin in Microsoft Windows 95.

Due to its usefulness, ping has been implemented on a large number of operating systems, initially BSD Unix, but later others including Windows and Mac OS X.

Bundling them together is alleged to have been responsible for Microsoft's victory in the browser wars as every Windows user had a copy of Internet Explorer.

They also asserted that IE was not really free because its development and marketing costs may have kept the price of Windows higher than it might otherwise have been.

Maxis also released some non-simulation titles, such as 1991's RoboSport and the well-known 1995 3D Pinball for Windows, which has been included as one of the standard system games in many Windows releases.

Oberon-07 compilers have been developed for use with 32-bit Windows Oberon-07M ( Oberon-07 language revision 2008 ), 32-bit ARM, Cortex-M3 microcontrollers, and a Wirth-designed RISC processor implemented using a Xilinx FPGA Spartan-3 board.

On March 11, 1997, id Software released WinQuake, a version of the non-OpenGL engine designed to run under Microsoft Windows ; the original Quake had been written for DOS, allowing for launch from Windows 95, but could not run under Windows NT-based operating systems because it required direct access to hardware.

Later models have been credited with spurring competition in the previously stagnant Palm market, closing many of the gaps that existed between Palm OS PDAs and those powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, particularly on the multimedia front, but also with Sony's proprietary application launcher interface.