Windows Versions As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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now this may come as a surprise to some of our younger viewers out there but
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there was a time when operating systems and graphical user interfaces you know
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like Mouse pointers didn't exactly go together leaving computer enthusiasts
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with only plain text and uh cat posters to stare at in their mom's basements The
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Long Winter ended however in 1985 when
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Microsoft delivered Windows 1.0 shining
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in graphically generated light for the first time oh okay so they they actually
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weren't the first to do that at all but we've got to give them credit where it's
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due and while the first several Windows versions still basically ran over top of
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Ms Doss relying heavily on command line entries they also introduced many things
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we take for granted today such as differing executable file formats device
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drivers and multitasking that's right for the first time people could play
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mind sweeper and soliter simultaneously the next big developments
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came with the smash hit release of Windows 9 5 arguably the most prolific
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OS to date with sales reaching 40 million copies that year many of which
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are still running on elderly people's computers worldwide Windows 95 was the
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first OS capable of running 32-bit applications it introduced plug andplay
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Hardware commonly called plugin prey at the time and preemptive multitasking and
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os's ability to pause and resume program operations users were also treated to a
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groundbreaking new way of launching programs and ironically powering down
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the computer this start menu from then until Microsoft stopped supporting
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Windows 95 and launched Windows XP in the year 2001 we had witnessed much
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advancement multim Monitor and Universal serial bus or USB support with Windows
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98 the first non-server OS based on the
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NT kernel in Windows 2000 and that very
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unhelpful but friendly little paperclip but XP is the next proper stop on our
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tour because of this Milestone it was the first consumer oriented Windows OS
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to break free from doss's strangle hold in favor of an NT kernel although many
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remnants of the hey Doss days remained and in fact still exist like the command
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prompt or the tily menus used to enter god mode anyway this combined with its
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robust features like a restyled double wide start menu uh searching by document
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types not just name easier networking and file sharing and even an auto play
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all eventually led to 400 million copies
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being distributed with extended support continued up until last year this
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success did not come without a price though literally and Microsoft shocked
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many by announcing that while Internet Explorer and space cadet pinball were
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bundled for free office would no longer be included and would have to be
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purchased separately at a steep premium a trend that continues today eventually
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demand for a six 64-bit operating system capable of breaking through the 4 GB
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system memory limit imposed by 32-bit processors and os's led to the release
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of Vista in 2007 whose reception was
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less than lukewarm with directx10 ending
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up not being relevant for quite some time and controversy over things like
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the unavailability of Hardware drivers and its very high system requirements
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for the time Microsoft hurriedly released Windows 7 just two years though
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which while sharing much of the same code base ended up looking and
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Performing better than its predecessor thanks to Windows 7's critical Acclaim
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it got a longer shelf life but the same can't be said of Windows 8 and its free
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incremental .1 Improvement they did
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deliver better performance monitoring faster boot up and sleep and wake times
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improved networking performance and the Microsoft Store for apps but they
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replaced the Beloved start menu with the large brightly colored tiled start
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screen meant to blend The Experience between Windows desktop and Windows
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mobile devices a halfway measure that
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ended up not pleasing anyone but that
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doesn't mean they don't learn good old Microsoft which brings us to the present
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day Windows 10 while it may be too soon
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yet to determine what we'll remember about Windows 10 in 10 years there are
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some solid additions like Cortana for voice control the new and improved start
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menu and a new way of handling upgrades
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with Microsoft offering Windows 7 and eight owners a free Windows 10 license
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within the first year as long as they're willing to Wade through the appropriate
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menu options to preserve their privacy
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