a.k.a [Windows], the most widespread family of ''end-user'' operating systems on the planet, produced by [Microsoft] Corporation.

''(There may be other operating systems in widespread use in [embedded] devices where
they are not visible to the end users.)''

This is more of a general platform than a single operating system - the differences between Windows 3.x and Windows XP are dramatic.

This Wiki has a fair amount of information on the subject of
[Microsoft Windows and Tcl] and [Microsoft Windows and Tk].

Interfacing to [Windows/CE], recently renamed [PocketPC], is something of a special case - but great fun! [RS]

See [Word reaper] for a way to extract the plain text from a word document via [DDE].
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"Despite being '''closed source''', holes are discovered '''constantly'''. "
[http://m.bacarella.com/papers/secsoft/html/index.html]
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[RS] 2005-09-21 '''UNC name from drive letter:''' This windows-specific function parses the output of ''net use'' and returns the remote name as a forward-slashed UNC path, or "" if something went wrong:
 proc net_use drive {
   if ![catch {exec net use $drive} res] {
      foreach line [split $res \n] {
         if {[set pos [string first \\ $line]]>0} {
             return [file norm [string range $line $pos end]]
         }
      }
   }
 }
 % net_use h:
 //kstbf05/SuchRich$


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