* 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.

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.

A Microsoft Windows ( 2000 or newer ) port was made available starting with the 2. 2. 0 series.

Modern Windows operating system versions are based on the newer Windows NT kernel that was originally intended for OS / 2.

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.

The rise of cheap yet powerful commodity workstations running Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, and the availability of diverse professional software for them, effectively pushed SGI out of the visual effects industry in all but the most niche markets, as studios adopted newer, cheaper technology.

Some systems ( particularly newer Macintoshes and new editions of Microsoft Windows ) use Intel's EFI.

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.

To cope with this problem, some newer games ( like Doom 3 ) disable the Windows Key while in the game.

The only way of currently running DOS applications in Real Mode from within newer versions of Windows is by using emulators such as DOSBox.

These were initially referred to as simply the " Windows API ", but were later renamed to Win16 in an effort to distinguish them from the newer, 32-bit version of the Windows API.

Windows NT and newer operating systems from Microsoft included a system notification service called Messenger service, which was intended for use within workgroups, but eventually became used maliciously to present pop-up advertisements to users.

It has been superseded by Microsoft's similarly named but separate and newer client, Windows Live Messenger, for connections to the. NET Messenger Service, and by Microsoft Lync ( formerly Microsoft Office Communicator ) in corporate environments.

The " s " in Win32s signifies subset, as Win32s lacked a number of Windows NT functions, including threading, asynchronous I / O, newer serial port functions and many GDI extensions.

In 2002, Atari re-released the game for newer operating systems, such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Visual Pinball runs on Windows 98 or newer.

WDM drivers are designed to be forward-compatible so that a WDM driver can run on a version of Windows newer than what the driver was initially written for, but doing that would mean that the driver cannot take advantage of any new features introduced with the new version.

Windows Vista supports both WDM and the newer Windows Driver Foundation.

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.

Some apps such as Microsoft Office are available in versions for several different platforms ; others have narrower requirements and are thus called, for example, a Geography application for Windows or an Android application for education or Linux gaming.

As a 16 bit application, the program will not run natively under 64 bit versions of the Windows operating system.

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.

Windows includes similar functionality, so the Cygwin library just needed to provide a POSIX-compatible application programming interface ( API ) and properly translate calls and manage private versions of data, such as file descriptors.

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.

Doom became a " killer app " that all capable consoles and operating systems were expected to have, and versions of Doom have subsequently been released for the following systems: DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Super NES, Sega 32X, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Symbian OS, RISC OS, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Tapwave Zodiac, 3DO, Xbox, and Xbox Live Arcade.

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.

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

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.

Later, two new versions were released: Windows / 286 2. 1 and Windows / 386 2. 1.