Microsoft Windows
, also known simply as
Windows, is a proprietary operating system.
Description edit
Windows has evolved over the years, and its feature set has changed dramatically. This Wiki has a fair amount of information on the subject of
Microsoft Windows and Tcl and
Microsoft Windows and Tk.
2015-05-04
APN Content on this page, much of which was duplicated, has been merged into the above pages.
Versions edit
Major versions of Windows include:
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- [Windows XP]
- Windows Vista
- Windows Aero
- Windows Mobile 2003
- Windows CE/Windows/CE
- Windows ME
- Windows NT
- Windows 2000
- Windows 2003
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
Tcl 8.6 requires Windows XP or later. Use 8.4/8.5 for earlier releases.
Other Windows API Implementations edit
Microsoft is no longer the only provider of the platforms implementing the Windows API: just by far the most dominant. There's also
Wine (providing support for Windows apps on platforms like
Linux,
FreeBSD and
[BeOS
]) and
ReactOS (providing an alternative Windows compatible operating system).
peterc 2008-06-13:
getWindowsAPIVendor is a small but handy proc for detecting which win32 code base your app is really running on:
Wine,
ReactOS or Microsoft Windows. This can be used for tuning your app or informing the user of support/non-support.
Unix-like environments for Windows edit
- cygwin
- unxutils
- GnuWin32
- Microsoft Services for Unix
