* 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.

Windows for Workgroups 3. 11 added 32-bit networking and 32-bit disk access.

Windows 95 added additional 32-bit capabilities ( however, MS-DOS, some of the kernel, and supplementary utilities such as Disk Defragment remained 16-bit ) and implemented a new object oriented user interface, elements of which are still used today.

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is based on the Windows Server 2003 codebase ; with the server features removed and client features added.

Windows Home Server 2011 is built on the Windows Server 2008 R2 code base It follows the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 which added support for Windows 7 to Windows Home Server.

By 1991 Microsoft added TrueType into the Windows 3. 1 operating system.

The addition of the kernel PnP Manager along with the Power Manager are two significant subsystems added in Windows 2000.

But XyWrite remained a niche product, unable to compete for the business user against Word for Windows, WordPerfect for Windows, and Ami Pro, despite added versatility and customization potential.

In particular, these University of Illinois students made two key changes to the Web browser, which hyper-boosted its appeal: they added graphics to what was otherwise boring text-based software, and, most importantly, they ported the software from so-called Unix computers that are popular only in technical and academic circles, to the Windows operating system, which is used on more than 80 percent of the computers in the world, especially personal and commercial computers.

Support for any media codec and container format can be added using specific DirectShow filters or Media Foundation codecs ( Media Foundation codecs only in Windows Vista and later ).

Video Smoothing was introduced in WMP 9 Series ( Windows XP and later only ) which upscales frame-rate by interpolating added frames, in effect giving a smoother playback on low-framerate videos.

While Windows Media Player 9 had added support for some files that use the WMV9 codec ( also known as the WMV3 codec by the FourCC ), in other aspects it was seen as having degraded in features from previous versions.

* Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact ( formerly known as Windows Embedded CE / Windows CE. NET / Windows CE ) has added SMP support at version 7

Nigel Thompson was the development manager for the Windows Multimedia Extensions that originally added multimedia capabilities to Windows.

Product Update 5 added Windows NT 4. 0 as a supported platform and incorporated support for the OpenDocument file-format.

Microsoft Windows operating systems have included the Microsoft Narrator light-duty screen reader since Windows 2000.

Narrator is a light-duty screen reader utility included in Microsoft Windows.

Narrator reads dialog boxes and window controls in a number of the more basic applications for Windows.

Narrator is included with every copy of Microsoft Windows, providing a measure of access to Windows without the need to install additional software as long as the computer in use includes a sound card and speakers or headphones.

The Windows 2000 version of Narrator uses SAPI 4 and allows the use of other SAPI 4 voices.

In Windows Vista and Windows 7, Narrator has been updated to use SAPI 5. 3 and the Microsoft Anna voice for English.

This is effective during boot in text mode and in a DOS box in Windows safe mode with 50 lines.

For example, the bytes of a plain text file (< tt >. txt </ tt > in Windows ) are associated with either ASCII or UTF-8 characters, while the bytes of image, video, and audio files are interpreted otherwise.

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.

Category: Windows text editors

Windows NT's OS / 2 heritage can be seen in its initial support for the HPFS filesystem, text mode OS / 2 1. x applications, and OS / 2 LAN Manager network support.

Many other computer programs are also capable of processing or creating plain text, such as countless commands in DOS, Windows, MacOS, and Unix and its kin ; as well as web browsers ( a few browsers such as Lynx and the Line Mode Browser produce only plain text for display ).

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and above provide the UK-Extended layout that behaves exactly the same as the standard UK layout for all the characters it can generate, but can additionally generate a number of diacritical marks, useful when working with text in other languages ( including Welsh-a UK language ).

Microsoft Windows systems come with the simple Notepad, though many people — especially programmers — prefer another Windows text editor with more features.

* Uniscribe ( Windows multilingual text rendering engine )

XEmacs is a graphical-and console-based text editor which runs on almost any Unix-like operating system as well as Microsoft Windows.

Category: Windows text editors

Third-party programs such as CoolSpeech, Textaloud and Ultra Hal can perform various text-to-speech tasks such as reading text aloud from a specified website, email account, text document, the Windows clipboard, the user's keyboard typing, etc.

text editors, PDF documents, help systems such as Windows Help, word processing documents, spreadsheets, Apple's HyperCard and many other places.

The Microsoft Windows API allows programs to request the text ' value ' in some controls.

Most on screen keyboards ( such as the onscreen keyboard that comes with Windows XP ) send normal keyboard event messages to the external target program to type text.

In Windows versions before XP the asterisk was also used as a mask to hide passwords being entered into a text box ; later this was changed to a bullet.

The bullet symbol is also generated by in GUI applications, but < tt > Alt + 7 </ tt > in a Windows text interface ( such as a Win32 console application ) it generates ( the bell character ).

The following single line of PureBasic code will create a standalone executable ( 3. 00 KB ( 3, 072 bytes ) on Windows version ) that displays a message box with the text " Hello World ".

According to Microsoft, the Pocket PC is " a handheld device that enables users to store and retrieve e-mail, contacts, appointments, tasks, play multimedia files, games, exchange text messages with Windows Live Messenger ( formerly known as MSN Messenger ), browse the Web, and more.

Classes are scriptable objects-for example, a text editing application will almost certainly have classes for Windows, Documents, and Texts-and these classes will have properties that can be changed ( window size, document background color, text font size, etc.