Microsoft Windows

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Microsoft Windows, developed and marketed by Microsoft, is the predominant operating system of the PC platform. Its competitors include Google's Chrome OS and Apple's macOS (and more recently iPadOS).
==History==
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates visited and licensed technology from Xerox PARC, as Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs had done.Today in Apple history: Microsoft gets sued for ripping off Mac OS by Luke Dormehl, Cult of Mac. 2019-03-17. Jobs also invited Bill Gates to preview the pre-release development of the Macintosh in 1983. However, Jobs had already been forced out of Apple by the time Microsoft released in November 1995. It was initially running as a shell on top of MS-DOS, Microsoft's existing PC operating system, but would eventually replace it.Microsoft's relationship with Apple by Christoph Dernbach, Mac History. 2011-01-30. Updated 2020-08-26.
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===Apple lawsuit===
After Microsoft released Windows 2.0 with a GUI that was more similar to the Mac, Apple Computer, under then-CEO John Sculley, filed a in 1988 against Microsoft for infringing on its operating system. However, U.S. federal judge dismissed several charges against Microsoft in 1995 after discovering that Sculley had signed off on a deal on November 21, 1985 that had licensed parts of Macintosh technology to Microsoft.Today in Apple history: Apple signs damaging deal with Microsoft by Luke Dormehl, Cult of Mac. 2020-11-21. After Apple co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the company in December 1996, he negotiated an end to the lawsuits with Microsoft and agreed to cross-license technology between the two companies in exchange for Microsoft's commitment to continue developing software such as Microsoft Office for the Mac and an investment of $150 million in Apple non-voting stock to help keep it out of bankruptcy.
===Release history===
* — November 20, 1985
*3 — December 9, 1987
*1 — March 13, 1989
* — May 22, 1990
* — April 6, 1992
* — July 27, 1993
* — September 21, 1994
*Windows NT 3.51 — May 30, 1995
* — August 24, 1995
* — August 24, 1996
* 1.0 — November 16, 1996
* — June 25, 1998
* — December 15, 1999
* — June 19, 2000
* — August 24, 2001
* — January 30, 2007
* — October 22, 2009
* — October 21, 2010
* — October 26, 2012
* — October 17, 2013
* — July 29, 2015
* — October 5, 2021Windows 11 available on October 5 by Aaron Woodman, Microsoft. 2021-08-31.
==References==
==See also==
*Boot Camp, for natively launching Windows on an Intel-based Mac.
*Parallels, for launching a virtualized Windows machine on a Mac with Intel or Apple Silicon.
*Virtual PC, for launching a virtualized Windows machine on a PowerPC-based Mac.
*Windows Migration Assistant, for moving user content from a PC to Mac.
==External links==
*Microsoft Windows at Microsoft
*Move your data from a Windows PC to a Mac at Apple Support (2021-10-25)
**Older Software Downloads: DOS-Windows Software (2001-07-17, archived 2001-08-01)
*Microsoft Windows at the Adobe Wiki
*Microsoft Windows at the Microsoft Wiki
* and at Wikipedia
===Articles===
*Intel Macs can't run Windows 11 without this workaround by Wesley Hillard at AppleInsider (2021-06-25)
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