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2. Earlier operating systems
released by the Microsoft
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MS-DOS
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows Millenium
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7

3. MS-DOS
Company/ Developer
Microsoft
Programmed In
Assembly Language
Working State
Discontinued
Source Model
Closed Source
Initial release
August 1981
Discontinued
Sept. 14, 2000
Supported Platforms
X86
Default User Interface
CUI or Command Line Interface
Succeeded by
Windows 95

4. Windows 95
Company/ Developer
Microsoft
Programmed In
Assembly Language
Working State
Discontinued
Source Model
Closed Source
Initial release
August 24, 1995
Discontinued
December 31, 2001
Supported Platforms
X86
Default User Interface
GUI
Succeeded by
Windows 98

5. Windows 98
Company/ Developer
Microsoft
Source Model
Closed Source
Working State
Discontinued
License
Commercial software
Initial release
May 15, 1998
Discontinued
July 11, 2006
Supported Platforms
x86
Default User Interface
GUI
Succeeded by
Windows (Me) 2000

6. Windows ME/2000
Company/ Developer
Microsoft
Source Model
Closed Source
Working State
Discontinued
License
Commercial
Initial release
Sept. 14, 2000
Discontinued
July 13, 2010
Default User Interface
Succeeded by
GUI
Windows XP

7. Windows XP
Company/ Developer
Microsoft
Source Model
Closed Source/ Shared Source
Working State
Continued
License
Commercial
Initial release
Oct 25, 2001
Discontinued
April 08, 2014
Default User Interface
Succeeded by
GUI
Windows Vista

8. Windows Vista
Company/ Developer
Microsoft
Source Model
Closed Source/ Shared Source
Working State
Continued
License
Commercial
Initial release
Jan 30, 2007
Discontinued
April 11, 2017
Default User Interface
Succeeded by
GUI
Windows 7

9. Windows 7
Company/ Developer
Microsoft
Source Model
Closed Source/ Shared Source
Working State
Continued
License
Commercial
Initial release
Oct 22, 2009
Discontinued
Jan 14, 2020
Default User Interface
Succeeded by
GUI
Windows 8

10. Meet Windows 8

11. Windows 8 are focused on your life—your friends and family, your apps, and
your stuff. With new things like the Start screen, charms, and a Microsoft
account, you can spend less time searching and more time doing. And then
there's the Windows Store, a completely new marketplace for apps. Windows
Get to know Windows 8
already comes with some apps, but you can get many more in the Store. There's
also a new web browser that's faster, safer, and more intuitive: Internet
Explorer 10.
With Windows, your life is connected.

12.  The main point about Metro is that its user interface and the corresponding
apps are optimized for touch screens.
 Using Metro UI, the most emphasis is put on Typography over pictography.
Metro User Interface
 Metro UI provides great user experience
 Metro UI represent the apps in the form of tiles.
 Functionality for an App made in Metro UI has greatly increased.
 This interface is fast and fluid.

13.  No matter where you are in Windows 8, the charms help you do the things you do most
often, like search, share links and photos, connect devices, and change settings. What you
can do with the charms can change depending on if you're on the Start screen or using
an app, so start exploring.
 The five charms—Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings—are always available on the
*Charms *
Search | Share | Change Settings and more
right side of your screen. Here’s how to open them:
With touch, swipe in from the right edge, and then tap the one you
want.
With a mouse move your pointer into the upper-right or lower-right
corner, and then move it up or down to click the one you want.

14. Search | Share | Change Settings and more
Search: Search for anything. You can search just the app you're in (like finding a specific
message in Mail), search another app (look up something on the Internet), or you can search
your entire PC (for an app, setting, or file).
Share: Share files and info with people you know or send info to another app, without leaving
the app you're in. You can email photos to your mom, update your Facebook status, or send a
link to your note–taking app.
Start: Get to your Start screen. Or if you're already on Start, you can use this charm to go back
to the last app you were in.
Devices: Use all of the devices that are connected to your PC, both wired and wireless. You can
print from an app, sync with your phone, or stream your latest home movie to your TV.
Settings: Change settings for apps and your PC. You'll find settings, help, and info for the app
you're in, plus common PC settings—network connection, volume, brightness, notifications,
power, and keyboard. These PC settings are the same no matter where you are in Windows, but
the app settings are different in every app. You can also change settings for your PC when you
select Change PC settings. It's where you change your lock screen picture, manage notifications,
and more.

15.  You’ve probably heard that Microsoft gave up the Windows Live brand.
Windows Live accounts are now called Microsoft accounts. You can either
log on to Windows 8 with a local/domain account or with a Microsoft
account. The latter allows you to store personal data and app settings in the
cloud.
Microsoft Account Integration

16.  Microsoft claims that Windows 8 boots up 30-70% faster than Windows 7.,
it is certainly a great improvement. Microsoft’s claim appeared to be true.
 You can customize the boot-up settings in power options.
Fast Start Up
 This does not apply wjile you restart your PC

17.  SkyDrive is the cloud storage from Microsoft used to store the data and
information on web. Windows 8 is cloud connected , this feature has been
integrated in the Windows 8 to work from anywhere in a fast and fluid way.
SkyDrive Integration
 Using SkyDrive , you must have a Microsoft account like hotmail, live,
outlook or from any other Microsoft service.

18.  The new Windows Store for Metro apps is certainly a Windows 8 highlight.
The fact that you won’t be able to buy and update legacy desktop
applications through the Windows Store could be the major driving force
for software vendors to focus on Metro and give up the old Windows
application paradigm altogether.
Windows Store

19.  The most noteworthy Internet Explorer enhancement is the new Metro
version. It is optimized for touch and comes with many of the features you
know from the browser of your smartphone: double tap, default full screen
mode, touch keyboard, and touch optimized tab bar. Of course, the old style
Internet Explorer 10
desktop Internet Explorer is still available in Windows 8. This could be a role
model for many software vendors.

20. Picture Password

21.  Windows 8 provides us the feature to work on two apps simultaneously. You
can use the snapping mode for max. two apps.
Snapping
 You can snap a windows 8 app next to your desktop.
 Snapping gives us a great experience. It allows us to chat with friends and
working on your project at the same time.
 You can use this feature for making video calls while doing a particular
office or school work or playing games.

22.  Many PC vendors have their own tool to reset a PC to the state it was
delivered. It is good that Microsoft integrates this functionality now into
Windows because it standardizes PC troubleshooting. However, more
interesting is the PC Refresh feature of Windows 8, which allows you to keep
PC Reset and PC Refresh
specific settings such as user names and passwords, data, and installed apps.
You can create a base image to which users can go back if they have messed
up their PC.

23.  Windows Defender will become full-blown antivirus software as it will not
only protect Windows 8 from spyware, as in Windows 7, but also from
viruses and worms. It will also feature real-time protection. SmartScreen,
Microsoft’s reputation-based malware protection, will now protect not only
Windows Defender
Internet Explorer but also Windows 8. Windows 8 will also be hardened with
an
enhanced
Address
Space
Layout
Randomization
(ASLR),
kernel
improvements, and a new Windows heap.
 It means that you need no to install any third party anti-virus software for
Windows 8

24. However, whenever you have to troubleshoot a Windows machine and you
didn’t bring your tool box, you will like new features such as resource usage
light-ups,
process
type
grouping
(applications,
background
processes,
Windows processes), friendly names for background processes, and top-level
New Task Manager
grouping windows by app. Interesting for server admins is the new heat map of
logical processors.

25. Graphics Hardware Acceleration