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-InNeedOfRefactor
+Microsoft Windows is the world's most widely used operating system on both servers and desktops.
-Microsoft Windows is an operating system. MicrosoftCorporation make it. You've used it. You probably disliked something about it.
+!!History
-Quoth orj: "it
's something we all love
to hate"
+Microsoft
's first version of Windows was released as a text mode [GUI] window system in 1985, running on top of [MS-DOS]. It took several years and many versions to catch up with features available on platforms such as the [Macintosh], [OS/2] and [X11], and while there were [other systems|http://toastytech.com/guis/geos12.html] that were technically better than Windows for several years, the great Microsoft marketing machine diminished the relevance of other platforms by fair means or foul, until the mid-90s where Windows was the only operating system that was available
to most people.
-''
...except for GreigMcGill, who does NOT love to hate it, he just wishes it would go away, thus making everybody
's life more pleasant, and the field of technical support a lot less like pin the tail
on the donkey
...''
+See [ComputerHope
's Windows history|http://www
.computerhope
.com/history/windows
.htm] or [Microsoft
's presentation
on Windows history|http://www
.microsoft
.com/windows/WinHistoryIntro.mspx]
.
-WlugIncorporated is about advocating Linux, and providing honest comparisons, not FearUncertaintyDoubt comparisons. Don't say ''Windows is teh sucks'' because then you look like an idiot.
+!!Current flavours
-See WhyComputersSometimesCrash
and HowToBootLinuxUsingWindowsLoader
+; Windows XP : Available in Home
and Professional flavours (as well as versions for Tablet PC and Media Center), Windows XP is the amalgamation of the "home" series (9x/ME) with the "business" series of NT/2000.
+; Windows Server 2003 : The server version of Windows, with versions extending up to multi-way [SMP]. Expensive to license.
+; Windows Mobile : Available for handheld platforms such as the PocketPC and Smartphone.
-*http://win2linux.net/index.html From Windows to Linux
-----
-Flavours of Microsoft
Windows
+!!Linux vs
Windows
-* __
Windows 1.x/2.x__: Fun(?) with 286's.
-* __Windows 3.1__: Still openly sat on top of [DOS].
-* __Windows 3.11 for Workgroups__: Same as Windows 3.1 with better networking bits.
-* __Windows 95/98/98 Second Edition/Millenium Edition__: Still sat on top of [DOS], but pretended not
to. 98SE still popular today with gamers as many games written for it don't run well on the newer
, NT-kernel-based versions
-* __
Windows NT: __ In 19?? Microsoft decided
to abandon their participation in
[IBM
]'s [OS/2] project
and instead decided
to create Windows NT. Microsoft
's latest
Windows NT derived OS
is Windows XP.
-* __Windows 2000__: 1999. What I consider to be the best release of Windows so far. But even then it isn
't so great. It sold well. Available in a number of varieties such as; Professional as a workstation; Server; Advanced Server; and Datacenter.
-* __Microsoft Neptune__: 2000. was to be the successor of Windows ME for the consumer
's desktop. Has been skiped in favour of Windows XP when BillGates left his CEO-Chair and became head of the development.
-* __Windows XP__: 2001. Microsoft's current drug of choice. Comes in a number of varieties (Home
, Professional, Embedded) etc. See also; [eXtraPants]
-* __PocketPC 2002__: Previously known as Windows CE (__C__onsumer __E__dition)
, and renamed because we all called it WINCE.
-* __Windows 2003__: You can basically call this XP Server. It's easier
to setup than Windows 2000 Server, and it looks and feels like Windows XP
. No workstation version available at the moment (See Windows XP)
+Windows has come
to symbolise all that the open source world hate about proprietary and commercial software
. However
, Linux advocacy is not about "replacing
Windows at all costs". People who push this opinion are effectively no different
to people who use
[FUD
]ded comparisons to try
and argue against Linux. If all you have
to say is '
'Windows is teh sucks
'', you come out looking like an idiot
, and reinforce the opinion held by managers that Linux is not
to be taken seriously
.
+
+* WindowsNotes
+* WellThoughtOutReasonsToRunWindows (and WellThoughtOutReasonsToRunLinux)
+* LinuxIsNotWindows, for more detail about
+* Category:Interoperability
+
+Things that need to be linked from somewhere else, please:
+
+* WhyComputersSometimesCrash
+* HowToBootLinuxUsingWindowsLoader
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