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.

By 1995, many of the DOS-based BBSes had begun switching to modern multitasking operating systems, such as OS / 2, Windows 95, and Linux.

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.

Windows 95 did not launch with DirectX, but DirectX was included with Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 .< ref >

To promote Windows 95, Bill Gates, aware of the video game's popularity, showcased a video presentation while digitally superimposed into Doom.

In late 1995, Doom was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft's new operating system Windows 95, despite million-dollar advertising campaigns for the latter.

The game's popularity prompted Bill Gates to briefly consider buying id Software, and led Microsoft to develop a Windows 95 port of Doom to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.

One such presentation to promote Windows 95 had Bill Gates digitally superimposed into the game.

It is speculated that Microsoft engineers took advantage of their experience working on the Doom Windows 95 port to place the code in the spreadsheet program.

One of the demo videos included with the Windows 95 CDs was the music video " Good Times " by Edie Brickell.

The 3. x and 4. x family includes Windows 3. 0, Windows 3. 1x, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me.

Microsoft would later imitate much of it in Windows 95.

Microsoft announced at the conference its intentions to develop a successor to both Windows NT and Windows 3. 1's replacement ( Windows 95, codenamed Chicago ), which would unify the two into one operating system.

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

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.

Windows 2000 added Narrator, a text – to – speech utility for people who have visual handicaps.

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.

For instance, if a user is designing a Microsoft Windows desktop application, he / she might use the. NET Windows Forms library to design the desktop application and call its APIs like Form1. Close () and Form1. Show () to close or open the application and write the additional operations him / herself that it need to have.

Diacritics can be composed in most X Window System keyboard layouts, as well as other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, using additional software.

The commissioners deadlocked with a 2 – 2 vote in 1993 and closed the investigation, but the Department of Justice opened its own investigation on August 21 of that year, resulting in a settlement on July 15, 1994 in which Microsoft consented not to tie other Microsoft products to the sale of Windows but remained free to integrate additional features into the operating system.

Later, IBM developed versions of OS / 2 that would use whatever Windows version the user had installed previously, patching it on the fly, and sparing the cost of an additional Windows license.

The Windows 2000 Server family has additional features, including the ability to provide Active Directory services ( a hierarchical framework of resources ), Distributed File System ( a file system that supports sharing of files ) and fault-redundant storage volumes.

Furthermore, compared to newer formats such as Windows Media Audio which use a simple MDCT rather than a hybrid, ATRAC3 must perform an additional and computationally expensive inverse-QMF, although the hybrid system does significantly reduce memory usage, which was likely a factor given the limited memory available when ATRAC was originally developed.

** QuarkXPress 7. 2 ( 2007 )-First version to support Windows Vista, additional languages.

Some operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X have virtual drive functionality built-in ( such as the loop device ), while others such as Microsoft Windows require additional software.

* Microsoft Windows application shortcuts contain additional metadata that can be associated with the destination, whereas POSIX symbolic links are just strings that will be interpreted as absolute or relative pathnames.

* IIS 5. 0 shipped with Windows 2000 and introduced additional authentication methods, management enhancements including a new MMC-based administration application, support for the WebDAV protocol, and enhancements to ASP.

A link to Windows Update on the Start Menu gave access to additional downloads for the operating system.

At the time of Windows 98's release Windows Update offered additional desktop themes, games, device driver updates, and optional components such as NetMeeting.

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal embedded hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.

In Windows XP and later versions, Paint is based on GDI + and therefore, images can be natively saved as JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG without requiring additional graphics filters ( in addition to BMP ).

Apple added additional claims to the suit when Microsoft released Windows 3. 0.

* Project Jedi ( Joint Endeavor of Delphi Innovators )-A collaborative open-source effort by the Delphi developer community to provide translations of Windows API interfaces, additional components and controls, and algorithms and data structures.

To play mp3PRO files in Microsoft Windows, users are required to install additional software.

Windows Cubase VST provided up to 32 tracks of digital audio, 128 equalizers in real time, a fully equipped effects rack with four multi-effect processors, a master section and an open plug-in interface for additional real time effects and mastering tools.

This means you can keep most of your existing source code, and using W / 32 BASIC, recompile your THEOS, OASIS, or UX-BASIC programs to work under additional operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux or SCO UNIX.

An additional feature called " True DPMI " or " DOS API translation " was proposed by Ralph Lipe in the version 0. 9 drafts, but never became part of the official specification ( even not with 1. 0 ); nevertheless, Windows implements this undocumented " True DPMI " nature.

In reality, the protocols were supported as a native transport for Windows ' SMB / NetBIOS, and NetWare connectivity required additional installation of an NCP client ( Microsoft provided a basic NetWare client with Windows 95 and later, but it was not automatically installed, and initially only supported NetWare bindery mode ).