Currently, the Android, iPhone, webOS, and Windows Phone mobile platforms have applications in their respective stores.

* HTC Titan, a smartphone running Windows Phone 7 ( 7. 5 Mango ) by HTC

Although it not used on some of today's newest mobile platforms ( e. g. iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry 10, Android ), it continues to be very popular in sub $ 200 devices such as Nokia's Series 40.

In May 2011, Fujitsu decided to enter the mobile phone space again, Microsoft announcing plans that Fujitsu would release Windows Phone devices.

* 3ivx HLS Client SDK for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

* The code name of Windows Phone 8, Microsoft's smartphone operating system

* Windows Phone

* Samsung Focus, a smartphone manufactured by Samsung which runs Microsoft Windows Phone

In June 2011, it was announced via Facebook and Twitter that some of the original developers of The Neverhood are currently negotiating for exclusive rights to release the game on modern platforms such as iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones, Android tablets, and Windows Phone.

* Uno for Windows Phone

* Crazy Eights for Windows Phone

One example is the Windows Phone Synthesizer.

The most common mobile operating systems ( OS ) used by modern smartphones include Google's Android, Apple's iOS, Nokia's Symbian, RIM's BlackBerry OS, Samsung's Bada, Microsoft's Windows Phone, Hewlett-Packard's webOS, and embedded Linux distributions such as Maemo and MeeGo.

In February 2011, Nokia announced that it would replace Symbian with Windows Phone as the operating system on all of its future smartphones.

This transition was completed in October 2011, when Nokia announced its first line of Windows Phone 7. 5 smartphones, Nokia Lumia 710 and Nokia Lumia 800.

Microsoft launched an application store for Windows Mobile called Windows Marketplace for Mobile in October 2009, and then a separate Windows Phone Marketplace for Windows Phone in October 2010.

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 Aero theme

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.

** With the introduction of Windows 7 ( Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise editions ), Windows XP Mode enables full compatibility with older programs supported under Windows XP via Microsoft Virtual PC.

* The Solaris API for handling access control lists ( ACLs ) is supported and maps to the Windows NT ACL system.

For instance, on newer MS Windows computers, the older FAT-type file systems of MS-DOS and old versions of Windows are supported, in addition to the NTFS file system that is the normal file system for recent versions of Windows.

The software developer documentation for Windows CE states that ClearType for rotated screens is supported on that platform .< ref >

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.

The aim of WinFLP is to give companies a viable upgrade option for older PCs that are running Windows 95, 98, and Me that will be supported with patches and updates for the next several years.

Implementations that are presently supported include C-Kermit ( for Unix and OpenVMS ) and Kermit 95 ( for versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards and OS / 2 ), but other versions remain available as well.

Apple has supported this protocol from Mac OS X 10. 4 onwards, and a Windows driver based on Apple's implementation exists for Windows XP and newer versions.

Thus, Windows is popular because it is well supported, but is well supported because it is popular.

Windows, on the other hand, supported a much larger variety of hardware.

Like most 32-bit environments, OS / 2 could not run protected-mode DOS programs using the older VCPI interface, unlike the Standard mode of Windows 3. 1 ; it only supported programs written according to DPMI.

WinQuake instead accessed hardware via Win32-based APIs such as DirectSound, DirectInput, and DirectDraw that were supported on Windows 95, Windows NT 4. 0 and later releases.

Red-eye removal is built into many popular consumer graphics editing software packages, or is supported through red-eye reduction plug-ins ; examples include Adobe Photoshop, Apple iPhoto, Corel Photo-Paint, GIMP, Google Picasa, Paint. NET and Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Currently, Microsoft Windows is the only supported platform.