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Microsoft Windows is one of the advance and excellent operating system that commonly and widely used for personal computer that develop by Microsoft. According to statistic until February 2014 80.6% of total personal computers used Microsoft Windows as their operating system. This statistic was based on the percentage of operating system used to access to the internet (Data, 2014) (Enterprise, 2012) Microsoft windows operating system not only limited to personal computer but also being used in serve, device, smartphone, embedded system and others .Microsoft was founded on 4 April 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. (Microsoft, 2014)

The history of Windows was started by the development of MS-DOS (x84) that stand for ‘Microsoft disk operating system’ for the very first IBM personal computer on August 1981 with version MS-DOS 1.0 and the latest update was on 1994 with version MS-DOS 6.22. (Stallings, 2005) Initially, the initial version was simple and resemble CP/M operating system. But it start to improve for the next version until it become increasingly sophisticated as they incorporated features of minicomputer operating systems. (Enterprise, 2012)

Next on 20 November 1985, first version of Windows was lunch known as Windows 1.0. The original name was Interface Manager but suddenly change to Windows due to it best describe computer box or ‘windows’ that are fundamental to the new system. This system used a basic interface that used gadget such calendar and calculator. This windows also the debut for MS Paint and primitive word processor. (Microsoft, 2014) (Enterprise, 2012)

After that on 1987, Microsoft lunched Windows 2.0 which does not have a much different compared to previous version. The differences only the introduction...

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...for entertainment and full features PC. (Microsoft, 2014)

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Data, R. (2014). OS Platform Statistics. Retrieved April 10, 2014, from w3schools.com: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Enterprise, Q. (2012, January 16). The History of Microsoft Operating Systems. Retrieved April 10, 2014, from Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/history_of_microsoft_windows_operating_system.html

Microsoft. (2014). Facts About Microsoft. Retrieved April 10, 2014, from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/inside_ms.aspx

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