資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Microsoft Windows
     
         {Microsoft}'s proprietary {window system}
        and {user interface} software released in 1985 to run on top
        of {MS-DOS}.  Widely criticised for being too slow (hence
        "{Windoze}", "{Microsloth Windows}") on the machines available
        then.
     
        The 1996 market share of operating systems was:
     
         DOS/Windows	70%
         Windows 95	15%
         Windows NT	 2%
         Other		13%
     
        [Current shares?]
     
        The version history goes something like: 1985 {Windows 1},
        1987 {Windows 2}, 1987 {Windows/386}, 1990 {Windows 3.0}, 1992
        {Windows 3.1}, 1992 {Windows for Workgroups 3.1}, 1993
        {Windows 3.11}, 1993 {Windows for Workgroups 3.11}, 1993
        {Windows NT 3.1}, 1994 {Windows NT 3.5}, 1995 {Windows 95},
        199? {Windows NT 4}, 1998 {Windows 98}, ? {Windows NT 5}.
     
        {Usenet} newsgroups:
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.comp.os.ms-windows.announce},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win3x},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.mail},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.news},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.announce},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.backoffice},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.compatibility},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.services},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.pre-release},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.winsock},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.vxd},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win3x},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.video},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc},
        {news:comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup},
        {news:comp.binaries.ms-windows}.
     
        (1998-10-15)