Windows

Windows is a family of operating systems developed and published by Microsoft since 1985. There have been several major branches of Windows to capitalize on various markets. The three main branches are for personal computers, servers, and portable devices, with dozens of variations within each (especially among the portable devices).

Personal

I have used the majority of the popular versions of Windows and have found it to be an pretty terrible operating system throughout its history, with version 10 being the worst of them all. Despite my disgust for the OS, I still use it as my primary system because of its broad range of support.

Versions

Software developed for a specific version of Windows is not always compatible with another version, and the older the software is, the less-likely it will be compatible with the latest version of Windows. Developers usually specify which versions of Windows will run their software, though this isn't always accurate.

Home Versions

Version	Release Date
Windows 1	1985-11-20
Windows 2	1987-12-09
Windows 3	1990-05-22
Windows 3 NT	1993-07-27
Windows 3.5 NT	1994-09-21
Windows 95	1995-08-24
Windows 4 NT	1996-08-24
Windows 98	1998-06-25
Windows 2000	2000-02-17
Windows ME	2000-09-14
Windows XP	2001-10-25
Windows Vista	2007-01-30
Windows 7	2009-10-22
Windows 8	2012-10-26
Windows 10	2015-07-29
Windows 11	2021-10-05