The desktop interface is also present for running windowed applications, although Windows RT will not run any desktop applications not included in the system.

Windows 8 will ship with three editions and one edition called Windows RT will only be pre-installed on ARM tablets.

* Windows RT ( Only installed on ARM tablets )

On April 16, 2012, Microsoft announced that Windows Media Player would not be included in Windows RT, the line of Windows designed to run on ARM based devices.

Epic has announced that Unreal Engine 3 runs on both Windows 8 and Windows RT.

* Windows drive letters are mapped to a special directory, so for example appears as.

Windows 2000 is also the first Windows version to support hibernation at the operating system level ( OS-controlled ACPI S4 sleep state ) unlike Windows 98 which required special drivers from the hardware manufacturer or driver developer.

The Start Menu in Windows 2000 introduces personalized menus, expandable special folders and the ability to launch multiple programs without closing the menu by holding down the key.

If a filename contains only lowercase letters, or is a combination of a lowercase basename with an uppercase extension, or vice-versa ; and has no special characters, and fits within the 8. 3 limits, a VFAT entry is not created on Windows NT and later versions such as XP.

Windows Me featured the shell enhancements inherited from Windows 2000 such as personalized menus, customizable Windows Explorer toolbars, auto-complete in Windows Explorer address bar and Run box, Windows 2000 advanced file type association features, displaying comments in shortcuts as tooltips, extensible columns in Details view ( IColumnProvider interface ), icon overlays, integrated search pane in Windows Explorer, sort by name function for menus, Places bar in common dialogs for Open and Save, cascading Start menu special folders, some Plus!

The brick is programmed by uploading a program ( written in one of several available programming languages ) from a Windows or Mac computer to the brick's RAM via a special infrared ( IR ) interface.

Using a special swap method could allow reading a GD-ROM game through a CD-ROM just using common MIL-CD ( standard CD Boot loading, commonly found on Windows Installation Discs, Linux Live CDs, and others ).

The film was initially released as a three-disc DVD set ( the movie on a standard video DVD, the movie again in a high definition Windows Media format, and a special features disc ) priced as high as $ 70.

Even though Windows 3. 1 does not natively support the Windows key, the Windows key on Microsoft keyboards released prior to Windows 95 will work in Windows 3. 1 with special software that accompanies the keyboard.

Several programs, including MP ( Module Player, 1989 ), ScreamTracker, Fast Tracker, Impulse Tracker, and even device drivers for Linux and Microsoft Windows, could play pulse-code modulation ( PCM ) sound through the PC speaker using special techniques explained later in this article.

Modern Microsoft Windows systems have PC speaker support as a separate device with special capabilities-that is, it cannot be configured as a normal audio output device.

User domains may either be unmodified open-source or proprietary operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows ( if the host processor supports x86 virtualization, e. g., Intel VT-x and AMD-V ), or modified, para-virtualized operating system with special drivers that support enhanced Xen features.

Also, a new version of Asteroids was developed for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Windows, and the Game Boy Color in the late 1990s.

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.

Worst of all, the highest revenue earner of the combined company was dBASE with no Windows version ready.

* A Cygwin-specific version of the Unix mount command allows Windows paths to be mounted as " filesystems " in the Unix file space.

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.

* Windows CE, a version of the Windows operating system designed for mobile devices

This was a version of Windows 2. 1 adapted for the 80386 processor.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

However, Edlin is included in 32-bit versions of Windows NT, since NTVDM's DOS support is based on MS-DOS version 5. 0.

Version 0. 7. 5 also shipped with a new version of the Windows installer.

Opera was somewhat faster, but it was proprietary software distributed in trialware and adware versions, both of which lacked some of the functionality of the Microsoft Windows version.

However, due to the prevalence of 3dfx hardware at the time of release, the Windows version of the game installs an OpenGL ICD ( opengl32. dll ) designed specifically for 3dfx's hardware.

The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1. 0, released on 20 November 1985, achieved little popularity.

The first version of Microsoft Windows included a simple graphics painting program called Windows Paint ; Windows Write, a simple word processor ; an appointment " calendar "; a " cardfiler "; a " notepad "; a " clock "; a " control panel "; a " computer terminal "; " Clipboard "; and RAM driver.

Microsoft Windows version 2 came out on 9 December 1987, and proved slightly more popular than its predecessor.

Much of the popularity for Windows 2. 0 came by way of its inclusion as a " run-time version " with Microsoft's new graphical applications, Excel and Word for Windows.

Microsoft Windows received a major boost around this time when Aldus PageMaker appeared in a Windows version, having previously run only on Macintosh.

Support for SNI is available since Firefox 2, Opera 8, Safari 2. 1, Google Chrome 6, and Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista.

Windows Vista was released on 8 November 2006 to business customers, consumer versions following on 30 January 2007.

Screenshot of the new Windows 8 Start Screen

Windows 8 is the upcoming version of Microsoft Windows.

Windows 8 features a redesigned user interface, designed to make it easier for touchscreen users to use Windows.

On the Building Windows 8 blog, it was announced that a computer running Windows 8 can boot up much faster than Windows 7.

* Windows 8

* Windows 8 Pro

* Windows 8 Enterprise

Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate were both released on May 31, 2012.

Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012.

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