Windows Development

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Timeline of Windows Development

Adopted from Wikipedia  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Microsoft_Windows ) and opens up additionak information to Windows 7 and History of Microsoft Windows.

Date	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit
20 November 1985	Windows 1.0
9 December 1987	Windows 2.0
27 May 1988	Windows 2.10
13 March 1989	Windows 2.11
22 May 1990	Windows 3.0
6 April 1992	Windows 3.1
27 October 1992	Windows for Workgroups 3.1
27 July 1993		Windows NT3.1
8 November 1993	Windows for Workgroups 3.11
21 September 1994		Windows NT3.1
30 May 1995		Windows NT3.51
24 August 1995	Windows 95
24 August 1996		Windows NT4.0
25 June 1998	Windows 98
5 May 1999	Windows 98 SE
17 February 2000		Windows 2000
14 September 2000	Windows ME
25 October 2001		Windows XP
31 October 2002		Windows XP Media Center Edition
24 April 2003	Windows Server 2003
30 September 2003		Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
12 October 2004		Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
25 April 2005			Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
8 July 2006		Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
30 November 2006		Windows Vista for Business use
30 January 2007		Windows Vista for Home use;
7 November 2007		Windows Home Server
27 February 2008		Windows Server 2008
22 October 2009		Windows 7
22 October 2009		Windows Server 2008 R2

Hardware requirements

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows 7)

Microsoft has published their minimum specifications for a system running Windows 7. Requirements for the 32-bit version are much the same as recommendations for premium editions of Vista, but the 64-bit versions are higher. Microsoft has released an upgrade advisor that scans a computer to see if it is compatible with Windows 7.

Minimum hardware requirements for Windows 7

Architecture	32-bit	64-bit
Processor	1 GHz 32-bit processor	1 GHz 64-bit processor
Memory (RAM)	1 GB of RAM	2 GB of RAM
Graphic cards	DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0 (For Aero)
HDD free space	16 GB of available disk space	20 GB of available disk space
Optical drive	DVD drive (only to install from DVD/CD Media)

 

Additional requirements to use certain features:

• requires a USB flash drive to use BitLocker To Go.
• Windows XP Mode requires an additional 1 GB of RAM, an additional 15 GB of available hard disk space, and a processor capable hardware of virtualisation with Intel VT. 
• Windows Media Center (included with Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate), requires a TV-tuner.