List of Microsoft Windows Versions, Editions and Release Date

On Sep 23, 2019 0

Are you researching on the history of Microsoft Windows versions? This article contains a complete list of all Microsoft Windows Versions and date of release.

Windows is a Microsoft operating system, the de facto standard perfect for home, educational and business PC.

The MS Windows is GUI-based OS which was introduced in November 1985 and ever since then it has been released in several versions since then, as shown in the table below.

Microsoft company started with the partnership of Bill Gates and Paul Allen in the year 1975. Bill Gates and Paul Allen co-developed Xenix which is a version of Unix. The Microsoft company was incorporated in the year 1981.

In the world today, Windows is the most used operating system for PC. And it is used by several brands to power their hardware.

We have seen Windows version changes from to another. Below is the list of all the versions.

Microsoft Windows Versions, Editions and Release Date

NAME	RELEASE DATE	EDITION
Windows 10	29 July 2015	Windows 10 Home Windows 10 Pro Windows 10 Pro Education Windows 10 Enterprise Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB Windows 10 Education Windows 10 IoT Core Windows 10 IoT Enterprise Windows 10 S
Windows 8.1	17 October 2013	Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 Pro Windows 8.1 Enterprise Windows 8.1 OEM Windows 8.1 with Bing
Windows 8	26 October 2012	Windows 8 Windows 8 Pro Windows 8 Enterprise Windows 8 OEM
Windows 7	22 October 2009	Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Ultimate Windows Thin PC
Windows Vista	30 January 2007	Windows Vista Starter Windows Vista Home Basic Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Enterprise Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows XP Professional x64	25 April 2005	N/A
Windows XP	25 October 2001	Windows XP Starter Windows XP Home Windows XP Professional Windows XP 64-bit Edition Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (8 July 2006)
Windows ME	14 September 2000	N/A
Windows 2000	17 February 2000	Professional
Windows 98	25 June 1998	Windows 98 Windows 98 Second Edition (23 April 1999)
Windows NT 4.0	24 August 1996	Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Windows 95	24 August 1995	Windows 95 Windows 95 SP1 (31 December 1995) Windows 95 OSR1 (14 February 1996) Windows 95 OSR2 (24 August 1996) Windows 95 USB Supplement to OSR2 (27 August 1997) Windows 95 OSR2.1 (27 August 1997) Windows 95 OSR2.5 (26 November 1997)
Windows NT 3.51	30 May 1995	Windows NT 3.51 Workstation
Windows NT 3.5	21 September 1994	Windows NT 3.5 Workstation
Windows 3.2	22 November 1993	Simplified Chinese only
Windows for Workgroups 3.11	November 1993	N/A
Windows NT 3.1	27 July 1993	Windows NT 3.1
Windows 3.1	April 1992	Windows 3.1 Windows for Workgroups 3.1 (October 1992)
Windows 3.0	22 May 1990	N/A
Windows 2.11	13 March 1989	Windows/286 Windows/386
Windows 2.10	27 May 1988	Windows/286 Windows/386
Windows 2.03	9 December 1987	N/A
Windows 1.04	April 1987	N/A
Windows 1.03	August 1986	N/A
Windows 1.02	May 1986	N/A
Windows 1.01	20 November 1985	N/A

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