La Historia Así Súper Padre de un Tal Windows

 Windows is an operating system created by Microsoft. It consists of a group of programs that allow the execution of the resources that a computer has.

Microsoft was originally called "Traf-O-Data" in 1972, then "Micro-soft" in November 1975, and finally given the name "Microsoft" on November 26, 1976.

Microsoft entered the market in August 1981, releasing version 1.0 of the Microsoft DOS Operating System (MS-DOS), a 16-bit command-line operating system.

The first version of Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Windows 1.0) was released in November 1985. It had a graphical user interface inspired by the user interface of Apple computers at the time. Windows 1.0 did not attract the public, and Microsoft Windows 2.0, released on December 9, 1987, did not fare any better.

It was on May 22, 1990 that Microsoft Windows became a hit, with the Windows 3.0 version, then Windows 3.1 in 1992, and finally Microsoft Windows for Workgroups, later called Windows 3.11, which included networking capabilities. Windows 3.1 cannot be considered a completely standalone operating system, as it was just a graphical user interface that ran on top of MS-DOS.

On August 24, 1995, Microsoft released the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. With Windows 95, Microsoft wanted to transfer some of the features of MS-DOS to Windows. However, this new version relied heavily on 16-bit DOS and still had the limitations of the FAT16 file system, so long filenames were not possible.

After some minor revisions to Windows 95, called Windows 95A OSR1, Windows 95B OSR2, Windows 95B OSR2.1 and Windows 95C OSR2.5, Microsoft released the next version of Windows on June 25, 1998: Windows 98. Initially Windows 98 natively supported options other than MS-DOS, but it was still MS-DOS based. Windows 98 also had poor memory management when running multiple applications. This may cause the system to crash. A second edition of Windows 98 was released on February 17, 2000. It was called Windows 98 SE ("Second Edition").

On September 14, 2000, Microsoft released Windows Me (for Millennium Edition), also known as Windows Millennium. Windows Millennium was largely based on Windows 98 (and therefore MS-DOS), although it added additional software and multimedia features. In addition, Windows Millennium included a system recovery mechanism to return to a previous state in the event of a system failure.

Simultaneously with the release of these versions, Microsoft (since 1992) sells a full 32-bit operating system (not MS-DOS based) for professional use, at a time when companies mainly used DOS systems. central. It was called Windows NT (for Windows "New Technology"). Windows NT was not a new version of Windows 95 or an improvement, but a completely different operating system.

On May 24, 1993, the first version of Windows NT was released. It was called Windows NT 3.1. It was followed by Windows NT 3.5 in September 1994 and Windows 3.51 in June 1995. With Windows NT 4.0, released on August 24, 1996, Windows NT became a real success.

In July 1998, Microsoft released Windows NT 4.0 TSE (Terminal Server Emulation). It was the first Windows system that allowed terminals to connect to a server, that is, to use thin clients to open a session on the server.

On February 17, 2000, the next version of NT 4.0 was named Windows 2000 (instead of Windows NT 5.0) to highlight the unification of the "NT" and "Windows 9x" systems. Windows 2000 is a full 32-bit system with Windows NT features, an improved task manager, and full support for USB and FireWire peripherals.

Then, on October 25, 2001, Windows XP hit the market. This version was an amalgamation of previous operating systems.

Finally, on April 24, 2003, Microsoft released a server operating system: Windows Server 2003.