Many minor problems that existed in the first edition were fixed making it, according to many, the most stable release of the Windows 9x family.

" Windows Me was the last operating system to be based on the Windows 9x ( monolithic ) kernel and MS-DOS.

** The Windows 9x kernel, used in Windows 95, 98 and ME

*** Microsoft Windows 9x series ( 95, 98, Windows 98SE, Me )

Similar to Windows 9x, Windows 2000 supports automatic recognition of installed hardware, hardware resource allocation, loading of appropriate drivers, PnP APIs and device notification events.

However tools for hiding SoftICE are also available, such as IceStealth and IceExt for Windows NT, or Icedump and IcePatch for Windows 9x.

PBCC is a 32-bit compiler for the Windows 9x series and Windows NT series of operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

PBWin is a 32-bit compiler compatible with the Windows 9x series and the Windows NT series of operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

Version 2. 3. 1. 0 is the last stable version of Shareaza that supports Windows 9x.

Furthermore, major changes to the torrent handling mechanism have been made and Windows 98 / Me support has been discontinued ( the last version working on Windows 9x is 2. 3. 1. 0 ).

Since Java's bytecode is platform-independent, Java applets can be executed by browsers running under many platforms, including Windows, Unix, Mac OS, and Linux.

There is one major uncompressed audio format, PCM, which is usually stored in a. wav file on Windows or in a. aiff file on Mac OS.

One such program is ProSystem, written in C / C ++ for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Active Directory ( AD ) is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks.

It is included in most Windows Server operating systems.

For example, when a user logs into a computer that is part of a Windows domain, Active Directory checks the submitted password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or normal user.

Stand-alone official AIM client software includes advertisements and is available for Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS.

Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows that display hard drive sizes using the customary binary prefix " GB " ( as it is used for RAM ) would display this as 279. 4 GB ( meaning 279. 4 × 1024 < sup > 3 </ sup >, or 279. 4 ×).

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

BadTrans is a malicious Microsoft Windows computer worm distributed by e-mail.

Software quality is very important, especially for commercial and system software like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows and Linux.

For instance, JavaBeans library is used for designing enterprise applications, Windows Forms library is used for designing graphical user interface ( GUI ) applications like Microsoft Word, and Windows Communication Foundation is used for designing web services.

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.

* What is an Input Method Editor and how do I use it ?, a Microsoft article about Windows XP's Input Method Editor.

Castle of the Winds ( CotW ) is a tile-based roguelike video game for Windows 3. x.

Cygwin ( ) is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

The game's interface is very dated by today's standards, resembling more of a generic Windows application than the colourful screens in later releases.

The decreasing cost of display equipment and processors made it practical to provide graphical user interfaces for many operating systems, such as the generic X Window System that is provided with many Unix systems, or other graphical systems such as Microsoft Windows, the RadioShack Color Computer's OS-9 Level II / MultiVue, Commodore's AmigaOS, Apple's Mac OS, or even IBM's OS / 2.

OpenOffice. org version also supported Windows ME / 2000 for Asian / CJK versions, generic Linux 2. 2. 13 with glibc2 2. 1. 3, Solaris 7 SPARC ( 8 for Asian version ).

* USB and FireWire support improvements: Windows Me is the only operating system in the Windows 9x series that includes generic drivers for USB mass storage devices and USB printers.

In Windows NT, the OS was pure 32-bit ( except the parts for compatibility with 16-bit applications ), and only generic thunks were available to thunk from Win16 to Win32, as for Windows 95.

An example of the generic usage of POKE and PEEK is in traditional Visual Basic for Windows, where DDE can be achieved with the LinkPoke keyword.

Microsoft feared a court may define " Windows " as generic and result in the loss of its status as a trademark.

Courier New is used as the default font for monospace / modern generic font family in MS Windows ( since Windows 3. 1 ).

These protection mechanisms exist in contemporary operating systems such as Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple's Mac OS X, recent Oracle Solaris, Linux and possibly other Unix and Unix-like environments ; Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 includes limited protection against generic memory corruption vulnerabilities.

During that time, no generic USB mass storage driver was produced by Microsoft, even for Windows 98.

Today, third-party generic drivers are available as freeware for Windows 98 and Windows 98SE.

Third party generic drivers are also available for Windows NT 4. 0.

Windows 2000 has support via a generic driver for mass storage devices, however a device-specific driver was required for rare devices not conforming the USB MSC specification.

Microsoft does not, however, provide a generic DirectShow filter to enable playback support in third party DirectShow-based media players on Windows Vista or on Windows XP Media Center Edition.

However, the native Windows 7 Sound Recorder can not process generic < tt >. wav </ tt > files, and processes only proprietary < tt >. wma </ tt > files.