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Microsoft Windows is a family of graphical operating systems first released by Microsoft in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS, becoming a standalone dominant operating system through Windows 3.0 (1990), Windows 95 and successive versions to today's Windows 11. For most of the personal-computer era it has run on the large majority of desktop and laptop computers worldwide, making it one of the most commercially significant software products ever created and a central pillar of Microsoft's business.
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Microsoft Windows is developed by Microsoft.
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Windows is a proprietary operating system developed by Microsoft.
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The first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, was released on November 20, 1985 as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS
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