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  Microsoft Windows
       
           Microsoft's proprietary window system
          and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top
          of MS-DOS.  Widely criticised for being too slow (hence
          "{Windoze", "{Microsloth Windows}") on the machines available
          then.
       
          The 1996 market share of operating systems was:
       
           DOS/Windows	70%
           Windows 95	15%
           Windows NT	 2%
           Other		13%
       
          [Current shares?]
       
          The version history goes something like: 1985 Windows 1,
          1987 Windows 2, 1987 Windows/386, 1990 Windows 3.0, 1992
          Windows 3.1, 1992 Windows for Workgroups 3.1, 1993
          Windows 3.11, 1993 Windows for Workgroups 3.11, 1993
          Windows NT 3.1, 1994 Windows NT 3.5, 1995 Windows 95,
          199? Windows NT 4, 1998 Windows 98, ? Windows NT 5.
       
          Usenet newsgroups:
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.comp.os.ms-windows.announce,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win3x,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.mail,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.news,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.announce,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.backoffice,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.compatibility,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.services,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.pre-release,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.winsock,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.vxd,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win3x,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.video,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,
          news:comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,
          news:comp.binaries.ms-windows.
       
          (1998-10-15)