Microsoft Windows | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 19/12/2018

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows


00:02:05 1 Genealogy
00:02:14 1.1 By marketing role
00:05:33 2 Version history
00:05:54 2.1 Early versions
00:09:06 2.2 Windows 3.x
00:10:54 2.3 Windows 9x
00:14:17 2.4 Windows NT
00:14:26 2.4.1 Early versions
00:16:38 2.4.2 Windows XP
00:18:41 2.4.3 Windows Vista
00:19:27 2.4.4 Windows 7
00:20:16 2.4.5 Windows 8 and 8.1
00:21:38 2.4.6 Windows 10
00:23:13 2.4.7 Multilingual support
00:25:52 2.4.8 Platform support
00:28:06 2.5 Windows CE
00:29:22 2.6 Xbox OS
00:30:29 3 Version control system
00:31:30 4 Timeline of releases
00:31:40 5 Usage share and device sales
00:33:42 5.1 Usage share on servers
00:34:00 6 Security
00:37:53 6.1 File permissions
00:38:49 6.2 Windows Defender
00:40:25 6.3 Third-party analysis
00:41:50 7 Alternative implementations
00:44:25 8 See also



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Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. Active Windows families include Windows NT and Windows Embedded; these may encompass subfamilies, e.g. Windows Embedded Compact (Windows CE) or Windows Server. Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.
Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer (PC) market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984.  Apple came to see Windows as an unfair encroachment on their innovation in GUI development as implemented on products such as the Lisa and Macintosh (eventually settled in court in Microsoft's favor in 1993).  On PCs, Windows is still the most popular operating system. However, in 2014, Microsoft admitted losing the majority of the overall operating system market to Android, because of the massive growth in sales of Android smartphones. In 2014, the number of Windows devices sold was less than 25% that of Android devices sold. This comparison however may not be fully relevant, as the two operating systems traditionally target different platforms. Still, numbers for server use of Windows (that are comparable to competitors) show one third market share, similar to that for end user use. 
As of  October 2018, the most recent version of Windows for PCs, tablets, smartphones and embedded devices is Windows 10. The most recent versions for server computers is Windows Server 2019. A specialized version of Windows runs on the Xbox One video game console.