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Windows is a
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of
proprietary {{Short pages monitor Freedows OS – an open-source attempt at creating a Windows clone for x86 platforms, intended to be released under the
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. Started in 1996 by Reece K. Sellin, the project was never completed, getting only to the stage of design discussions which featured a number of novel concepts until it was suspended in 2002.


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Wintel Wintel (portmanteau of ''Windows'' and ''Intel'') is the partnership of Microsoft and Intel producing personal computers (PCs) using Intel x86-compatible processors running Windows. Background By the early 1980s, the chaos and incompatibility ...


References


External links

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Official Windows Blog

Microsoft Developer Network

Windows Developer Center

Microsoft Windows History Timeline

Pearson Education, InformIT
 – History of Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Business Software Solutions

Windows 10 release Information
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Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...
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