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Windows
(Microsoft Windows) the operating system developed by Microsoft that
became popular in the early 1990s utilizing graphical user interface technol-ogy.
The early versions ran using DOS as a platform. In the 1980s Microsoft
offered Windows versions 1 and 2 but they never caught on. In 1990, the com-pany
introduced the Windows 3 series, which revolutionized the software in-dustry
allowing users a wide variety of computing options.