Before the release of Windows 8 , perhaps the most radical upgrade of the operating system Microsoft 's history, it's time to look back and have a look the history ofWindows . As the years to change the interface of the most popular operating system?Some of these screenshots have seen few others cause nostalgia for the good old days, and some - modern but not you know it, and become history.
Windows 1.0
Development of Windows was launched in 1982, and the first version was born in 1985.Bill Gates called it "a unique program for PCs intended for experienced users." The uniqueness is the ability to run several programs at once and switch between them. At least in this system, and had the windows, they were very different from those windows that use Windows for most of its existence. The windows do not overlap, and rather resembled a tiled interface, not the interface Xerox Star and the Macintosh.
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Windows 2.0
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Exit Windows 2.0 was followed two years later. It first appeared overlapping windows and hot keys to quickly switch between applications and perform some commands. Windows 2.0 was made with an eye on Intel's 8286, and with the release of Windows 2.1 it was divided into two "branches»: Windows/286 and Windows/386 (last used the capabilities of the new processors).
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.0, released in 1990 - the first truly successful version of Windows. Support for graphics mode VGA, the first implementation of true multitasking interface and finally overtook Macintosh, makes the system very attractive.
Windows 3.1 and 3.11
Windows 3.1 (1992) and Windows 3.11 (1993) contained some important update to Windows 3.0. In particular, there were 3.1 scalable vector fonts, and multimedia support - then the word came to be called a combination of CD-ROM and audio card.
Windows NT 3.1
The first ever edition of Windows NT appeared in 1993.She has worked on a new kernel has been more demanding on the hardware. Windows first became tridtsatidvuhrazryadnoy system and support network has been built at the system level. Microsoft thanks NT able to compete with professional systems Novell and then completely out of the market.
Windows 95
1995 was perhaps the most important year in the history of Microsoft. Of the shells, sits above the MS-DOS, Windows has become a full-fledged operating system. In Windows 95, there were many elements of the interface, which have become our family, for example, the button "Start" button and taskbar. All versions of Windows, published since then, until Windows 8 - the spiritual heirs of Windows 95.
Windows NT 4.0
While Windows 95 won users' computers, NT continued to exist in the home for a corporate environment. The fourth version has inherited many features of Windows 95 interface, but still had a perfect kernel and more networking opportunities. However, as in version 3.1, the fourth NT still missing device drivers and hardware requirements remained high.
Windows 98
Three years after the Windows 95 system significantly upgraded. In those years, the most important trend has been the ubiquity of the Internet, and Windows 98 is clearly visible. For the first time in the distribution of full rights does come to the same appearance of such innovations as the Active Desktop (the ability to set the web page to the desktop) and "active channels" which became the forerunner of the modern RSS.
Windows 2000
In Windows 2000, there has been a convergence of professional Windows NT and Windows 95 konsyumerskoy that year and a half will be crowned the advent of Windows XP , unifying the two branches. It was produced as many as four major versions of Windows 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter Server). The problem with the driver for NT was mostly resolved, also here there was an important network technology - Active Directory. Of Windows 98 in 2000 moved Device Manager, Media Player and DirectX.
Windows ME
Millenium Edition - the latest incarnation of the branches, beginning with Windows 95.ME was released almost simultaneously with Windows 2000 and had to replace the Windows 98 on computers that are not good for running Windows 2000. This distribution was first entered System Restore, and included all the updates released for Windows 98. However, the system proved to be less stable than Windows 98, for what its users are not loved and vilified.
Windows XP
In late 2001, for Windows 2000 was followed by a slightly modified version of it with a more user-friendly interface.Oh, what a popular and she became famous! Even now, in 2012, it is still used and even try to install on new computers. Windows XP computer has become a symbol of his era, and virtually every detail of widely known, whether the sound to be played when you log on, or a green hill with a standard desktop. The last set of updates, Service Pack 3 was released in 2008, and the end to upgrade security systems Windows XP is scheduledfor April 2014.
Windows Vista
The history of the long-suffering project Windows Longhorn, never saw the light, known to many. This version was to be a truly revolutionary (different plans to replace the file system on which the database cost), but by 2006, waiting for her it was impossible, and Microsoft decided to release at least something . Something has Windows Vista, and if revolutionary ideas were not included in it, then there are the usual improvements. Among them - much more sophisticated (and complicated) security system, full-text search for files and interface Aero, made with the three-dimensional graphics hardware acceleration. However, the system requirements were too high to justify the upgrade, and the massive disappointment in this version of Vista brought fame almost as unlucky as Windows ME.
Windows 7
As far as customers did not like Vista, so well did they react to the appearance ofWindows 7 .Requirements for "iron" decreased to the same on the court was in 2009 - to keep the scrap metal, not able to run somethingbetter than XP, was just too weird. The "seven" were such features as fast-loading, the updated command line PowerShell, multitouch support and redesigned taskbar. Someinterface solutions moved from Vista, some (for example, the sidebar), by contrast, have gone by the wayside.
Windows 8
Today, before the release of Windows 8, this system is known to almost everyone. It will be in the new Modern UI, not borrowed almost nothing from past versions of Windows (fun, but he vaguely echoes the Windows 1.0, where the windows do not overlap, and the screen can be divided up between the programs). It also continues the classic desktop, but almost on the Rights of the command string to be included in Windows for compatibility. However, the interface Aero, and click the "Start" will have to say goodbye. The only thing we do not know - how popular will the system. Will it be the same step in the future, like Windows 95, or fail - as Vista and Me?
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