* A Windows Algol Algol running on Vista win64 system by Marcel van der Veer, Algol 68 Genie works on normal Windows up through the latest.

Microsoft dropped support for APM in Windows Vista.

* Boot Configuration Data, a computing term for the boot loader of Windows Vista

* Microsoft Windows contains application compatibility shims to make the platform compatible with most software from earlier 32-bit and 16-bit versions ( e. g. Civilization ( circa 1991, designed for Windows 3. 0 ) running on Windows Vista ).

Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system also includes content-control software.

In Windows Vista and Windows 7 ClearType is turned on by default.

Those games can be played on all major browsers and they can also be ported to Widgets for Mac OS X and Gadgets for Windows Vista, which are based on DHTML code.

* Windows Display Driver Model ( WDDM ) – the graphic display driver architecture for Windows Vista

* CNG API in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 with managed wrappers for CNG in. NET Framework 3. 5

Newer versions of popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer on Windows Vista implement the Online Certificate Status Protocol ( OCSP ) to verify that this is not the case.

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

Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

Windows XP lasted longer as Microsoft's flagship operating system than any other version of Windows, from 25 October 2001 to 30 January 2007 when it was succeeded by Windows Vista.

Windows Vista Desktop

Windows Vista has the Aero theme

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

** 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.

In Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions, Internet Explorer 7 and later versions and Windows Live Messenger, ClearType is also turned on by default, even if it is not enabled throughout the operating system.

Duke Nukem 3D has been ported to run on modern Microsoft Windows variants including Windows XP and Windows 7.

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

Microsoft had a double gain from its release: first, it made it impossible for consumers to run Windows 95 on a cheaper, non-Microsoft DOS ; secondly, although traces of DOS were never completely removed from the system and MS DOS 7 would be loaded briefly as a part of the booting process, Windows 95 applications ran solely in 386 enhanced mode, with a flat 32-bit address space and virtual memory.

Vista also features new graphics features, the Windows Aero GUI, new applications ( such as Windows Calendar, Windows DVD Maker and some new games including Chess, Mahjong, and Purble Place ), Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, and a large number of underlying architectural changes.

Windows 7 Desktop

Windows 7 is the current major release after Windows Vista and was released to manufacturing on 22 July 2009, and reached general retail availability on 22 October 2009.

Windows 7 has the version number NT 6. 1.

Some features of Windows 7 are faster booting, Device Stage, Windows PowerShell, less obtrusive User Account Control, multi-touch, and improved window management.

Features included with Windows Vista and not in Windows 7 include the sidebar ( although gadgets remain ) and several programs that were removed in favor of downloading their Windows Live counterparts.

Efforts to reconcile concepts that differ between Unix and Windows systems include:

* Special formats of and are provided that include pointers to the Windows equivalent SIDs ( in the GECOS field ), allowing for mapping between Unix and Windows users and groups.

Newer ones include Free Lossless Audio Codec ( FLAC ), Apple's Apple Lossless, MPEG-4 ALS, Microsoft's Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless ( WMA Lossless ), Monkey's Audio, and TTA.

In November 2002 OSNews conducted a poll to determine the most popular Gecko-based browser, which included several browsers for Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Linux, but didn't include Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Suite.

Other common theories as to the initials ' origins include " Graphics and Windows ", " Gates, William " ( Microsoft's president at the time ), or " Gates-Whitten " ( the two main designers of the program ).

New features also include USB 3. 0 support, the Windows Store, the ability to run from USB drives with Windows To Go, and others.

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.

Protocols involved may include one or more of SNMP, CORBA, Java RMI,. NET Remoting, Windows Communication Foundation, sockets, UDP, web services or other standard or proprietary protocols.

Operating systems ported to the architecture include SGI's IRIX, Microsoft's Windows NT ( until v4. 0 ), Windows CE, Linux, BSD, UNIX System V, SINIX, QNX, and MIPS Computer Systems ' own RISC / os.

Later, in October the US Justice Department also sued Microsoft for violating a 1994 consent decree by forcing computer makers to include its Internet browser as a part of the installation of Windows software.

Oberon-2 compilers maintained by ETH include versions for Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X.

Clients implementing APOP include Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera Mail, Eudora, KMail, Novell Evolution, RimArts ' Becky !, Windows Live Mail, PowerMail, Apple Mail, and Mutt.

Wrapper tools that simplify this workflow include: ImageOptim, a GUI front-end for Mac OS X ; Kashmir Web Optimizer-GUI front-end for Windows ; imgopt, a command-line shell script that also losslessly optimizes JPEG images, Smush. it, an image-optimizing web service ; and TinyPNG, which provides further compression by also reducing the number of colors in the image.

Examples include Notepad ( Windows ), edit ( DOS ), ed, emacs, vi, vim, Gedit or nano ( Unix, Linux ), SimpleText ( Mac OS ), or TextEdit ( Mac OS X ).

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.

Some versions, including some versions for Windows Mobile, include both portrait and landscape orientations.

Notably, Windows is one of the few modern desktop / server OSs that does not include SSH by default.

TrueType has long been the most common format for fonts on both Mac OS and Windows, although both also include native support for Adobe's Type 1 format and the OpenType extension to TrueType ( since Mac OS X 10. 0 and Windows 2000 ).