30 years in pictures Windows – Clubic

Windows 1.0 comes out November 20, 1985 in the US market. Yet it has been announced a few years earlier by the firm of Bill Gates who started work in 1982 with a team of about twenty developers.

Windows 1.0 is not an operating system wholly. It is still based on MS-DOS, which is still required for its operation. However, Windows 1.0, which almost be called Interface Manager, a graphical overlay that replaces the aridity of the command line that MS-DOS users have had to get used.

In version 1.0, Windows indeed offers the management of the mouse, the metaphor of icons and menus. All elements and bases which, 30 years later, remain.

In the first version of Windows, which comes with the iconic Write applications (word processing) and Paint (drawing) but also the calculator and clock, windows can not overlap. They are displayed side by side due to agreements made by Microsoft at the time with Apple

Windows 2.0 arrives two years after the first version of the system and offers significant new features:. Management Memory beyond 640K, but above all, the ability to overlay windows on each other!

Windows 3 was released in 1990 and will sell 2 million copies. It was not until version 3.1 for Microsoft opens its operating system for multimedia with its joys card management, CD-ROM and whatnot.

In terms of interface, Windows 3.1 takes advantage of a range of 256 colors offers the famous program manager, forerunner of the Start menu, which includes programs and software installed on your PC by group. The windows move, resize, enlarge, shrink and can run side by side. For Windows 3.1 is multitasking want.

Windows 3.1 ships famous Solitaire, a game that marked an era. Some will tell you that he killed so many hours of business productivity, others argue on the contrary that it was an excellent tutorial to train in the mouse handling.

A version 3.11 is provided by Microsoft Windows, it embeds network extensions needed for the business world, at a time when the shadow of Novell still reigns on the networking of machines.

Windows 95 comes out August 24, 1995. Known as the Chicago codenamed internally at Microsoft, the software comes with a certain delay and a huge expectation of consumers. Still in its hybrid architecture, with a 16/32-bit kernel, Windows 95 preserves for MS-DOS compatibility. It requires a minimum i386 processor and 4 MB RAM (actually 8 MB are urged).

It also introduces radical changes especially in terms of interface with a taskbar, a Start menu, the arrival of a basket, or, support for file names longer than 8 characters (up to 255, a revolution).

Windows 95 embeds several new features including a media player, which will lay the foundation of Windows Media Player, but also more or less advanced functions depending on whether installed or not Microsoft Plus ! which then opens the graphical interface with more colors, lets see window contents by moving or provides screen fonts without aliasing.

Windows 95 will be an update reserved only for PC manufacturers, the OSR 2.0. This is for Microsoft to upgrade the OS by giving it a new file system to manage the FAT32 drives larger than 2 GB or to discretely integrate its Web browser: Internet Explorer. And we even take advantage of DirectX in the Windows update.

Later Microsoft will offer the OSR 2.5 will add support including USB to its system.

Windows 95 is also the legendary screen inviting you to wait before shutting down your computer.

Parallel to the launch of Windows 95, Microsoft sells NT 4.0 in 1996. This is an evolution of its Windows NT dedicated to the world of business and already launched earlier version including NT 3.51 on the ashes of the failed collaboration with IBM around OS / 2.

Windows NT 4.0 essentially takes up the graphic interface of Windows 95 and if individuals are tempted to install soon they discover that the OS is not really available although its interface because many drivers missing or missing.

Windows 95 Evolution dubbed internally Memphis, Windows 98 was released in June 1998. The OS offers natively features introduced with the OSR 2 .xx Windows 95 as the FAT32 file system or the USB management. But that’s not all, as the hardware technology of the time like AGP or MMX are supported.

Microsoft will sell 15 million Windows 98 licenses.

The metaphor of the office introduced with Windows 95 does not move with Windows 98, Microsoft simply integrates Internet Explorer 4.0 that becomes the heart of the OS and the same interface. The idea is to browse the contents of the PC as it surfs the Web by clicking on hyperlinks.

Many keep a bad memory of the Active Desktop for its famous crashes. For the Active Desktop is also a strong concept of the time: while the Internet and its uses are exploding, Microsoft placed on the push when information comes to the user without he or she need to pick her

As we said, Windows 98 Internet Explorer natively. This will trigger the ire of authorities in charge of competition in the United States.

This is Jim Allchin who presides over the destiny of Windows 2000, a turning point for Microsoft OS because it is always for businesses and totally 32 bits, it lays the foundation for some sort of Windows XP.

The system is launched in early 2000 and enjoys a NT 5.0 kernel. Its graphical interface is a bit more advanced than Windows 98 with some refinements here and there.

With Internet Explorer, Windows 2000 is also the beginning of the famous MMC Microsoft Management Console in which becomes housed barbaric things for the neophyte as Active Directory, super corporate directory that lists users and their access privileges while limiting . what they can do

Windows 2000 takes advantage of IIS for the web server and uses the Terminal Server feature of Windows NT 4.0 since long before the birth of cloud was believed to a remote computer: thin clients feature of an OS that would execute on a heavy duty applications and tasks remote server.

And while Windows Me comes out a few months later, its instability will push many individual users tried the adventure Windows 2000. The beginnings are chaotic for the same reasons as in NT 4.0, but forces the manufacturers are beginning to develop compatible Windows 2000 drivers … Even fire Wanadoo will eventually provide a functional driver for the USB ADSL modem star of the time, the manta ray aka Speedtouch USB Alcatel.

Windows Me comes out as one between two as a bridge between Windows 98 and Windows 2000 pending … Windows XP. Windows Me was a leading force: it no longer relies first on MS-DOS. At least that was the promise, but in practice one could always find MS-DOS compatibility.

Windows Me, which benefits emerging from the latest version of Internet Explorer ?? ?? version 5.5, is also capable of recognizing native USB sticks (without installation of drivers for example).

The system is also a laboratory of ideas for Windows XP: but with the Windows Media Player in an advanced version 7.0, System Restore allows to go back if something goes wrong or Windows Movie Maker for editing video! But Windows Me will be remembered for his legendary instability.

Windows XP was released in October 2001 and has the quality of being a fully operating system 32 bits. DOS is dead, the NT kernel previously reserved to the company is offered to everyone.

The operating system is distinguished by a graphical interface that will debate Luna code name, and integrates various technologies hardware advances such as DirectX or management of multi-core processors.

Available in two editions, a Professional version, Windows XP is considered more reliable because each application runs in its own memory space. The system requires a minimum resolution of 800×600 to display and inaugurated for the first time an activation technology in the fight against software piracy.

Windows XP will also be the first Microsoft OS to be available in x86 Version 64 bits. So very confidential, however the x64 version having arrived shortly after the launch of the AMD Athlon 64 and not having experienced real distribution in France.

Comes with Internet Explorer 6.0 in its version original, Windows XP takes advantage of new versions of Windows Media Player or Windows Movie Maker tool. It embeds natively and for the first time the Microsoft instant messaging. MSN Messenger

Windows XP has seen many changes since the OS was suffering from a problem size: he suffered many security vulnerabilities. This is the time of the Blaster worm, I Love You and other inconveniences of this kind that spread like wildfire and breaking down entire PC fleets

Result:. Microsoft stops all its developments, review its policy board code and writing about Service Pack 2. Which introduces a number of tools and technologies to secure the system, in addition to the establishment of the patch tuesday, to find the second Tuesday of each month updates security update … Download!

Windows Vista, out in pain early 2007. The OS comes six years after Windows XP and comes as Microsoft has consigned to oblivion a Much of the technologies that were originally to be the which the WinFS file system

Windows Vista is greeted coldly. the OS editions are too numerous, the price too high, restrictions on activation and do debate OS is greedy, very greedy. Its Aero technology, transparency windows which uses the graphics chip does not work everywhere … far from it, some PCs with Intel graphics chip never had the benefit of Aero. PC and rowing.

For laying the foundations of what will be Windows 7, Windows Vista is too demanding for hardware park which must host it. Result: the system is shunned. Especially since it is the object of troublesome bugs at launch whether on the performance of the network or file copy performance transfers.

Service Pack 1 will improve things, but the damage is done from when OEMs like Dell and HP offer their customers to buy their new machines with Windows XP.

Windows Vista will be the first commercial exploitation of Microsoft proposed both version 32 and 64 system bits. This will also be the first out on DVD instead of CD.

After a disastrous Windows Vista, Microsoft had to be done. And the Redmond company was not unworthy. Windows 7 comes out on time in 2009 and returns on most faults of its predecessor.

In three years the equipment park has evolved enough that the system is basically fluid because Windows 7 and Windows Vista share the same core.

Windows 7 is well received by critics, introduced popular features ?? like the ability to easily put two windows side by side (Aero Snap) ??, and gets rid of some gimmicks to Windows Vista as ALT-TAB in 3D, Flip 3D. Vista Widgets are however retained.

To convince businesses to upgrade to Windows 7, Microsoft offers a native virtualization of Windows XP so that the program may be incompatible with Windows 7 can still rotate.

It was in 2012 that Microsoft launches Windows 8. A system that we promised we reinvented and be close to the industrial accident how Windows Vista

In a world where the iPhone has set new rules and where the iPad has made viable an old idea from Microsoft (Windows XP Tablet Edition), Windows 8 will achieve the impossible. reconcile tablet . and desktop in the same environment

This is how Windows 8 offers office relegated to the background: instead, the PC users are greeted by a full-screen interface, code-named Metro. It hosts apps using a new model of development and it is not possible to boot directly to the desktop.

The office loses its Start menu! Sacrilege to many. And find out how to stop their PC is an achievement with the first commercial version of Windows 8.

But while Windows 8 supports touch, no touch machine is only on sale at the launch of the OS … except the Microsoft Surface tablet that still has everything to prove. The system provides significant innovations for PC users with file copying features greatly improved and optimized startup time.

Aware of the problems and after several significant departures in the executive of the company, Windows 8 successive updates allow to boot directly to the desktop, freeing Metro.

With Windows 8.1, a Windows button reappears in the bar tasks without being a Start menu, but right can click it to quickly reach certain key functions

Windows 10 comes out into the current. summer 2015 and is distinguished by its free. For the first time Microsoft offers the update to the new OS and this not only to users of Windows 8 and 8.1 but also to those of Windows 7.

An update released in mass while Windows 10 is presented Microsoft as a Windows as a service . In other words, the system evolves with regularly made more or less frequent cumulative day. The last took place recently in mid-November and baptizes Threshold 2.

In order to reconcile PC and tablet users, Windows 10 reintroduced a form of Start menu: not as complete and powerful as before, but offering a list of your programs and displaying interactive tiles apps inherited from Windows 8. Metro

Windows 10 also benefits from Cortana, the intelligent assistant Microsoft to meet your requests orally, while the OS is provided for Microsoft Edge, a new Internet browser that buries Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Windows 10 also includes DirectX 12, and the operating system takes advantage of new applications more or less successful as the Xbox app for disseminating One of its Xbox games on your PC and play it since. But also a new app for music, Groove Music, or a new email client called simply mail in French.

Of course, the touch is not forgotten, but tablet users do not have all acceded the proposed changes compared to Microsoft Windows 8, while the publisher made headlines about privacy issues and respect of privacy related to Windows 10.

Available in 32 and 64 edition bit, Windows 10 is also the first OS from Redmond to be marketed on a modern media: USB stick

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