[Microsoft] '''[http://http://windows.microsoft.com%|%Microsoft Windows]''',
also known simply as  [Windows], is a proprietary operating system.


** Description **

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 **

Major versions of Windows include:

   [Windows 95]:   

   [Windows 98]:   

   [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 **

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 **

   [cygwin]:   

   [http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/%|%unxutils]:   

   [http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/%|%GnuWin32]:   

   [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=274%|%Microsoft Services for Unix]:   

<<categories>> Category Operating System | Category Windows