Windows

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graphical operating system operating system family

Windows is a widely used family of graphical operating systems developed by Microsoft for personal computers, servers, and other devices.

Aliases (24)

Microsoft Windows ×126
Windows operating system ×7
Windows 10 ×4
Windows Server ×3
Microsoft Windows family ×2
Microsoft Windows operating system ×2
Windows 11 ×2
Windows operating systems ×2
Microsoft Windows ecosystem ×1
Microsoft Windows operating systems ×1
Microsoft Windows user interface ×1
Windows (via Google’s Nearby Share for Windows app) ×1
Windows (via Samsung apps) ×1
Windows (via third-party stacks) ×1
Windows (via web) ×1
Windows 64-bit ×1
Windows 8 ×1
Windows 95 ×1
Windows Server family ×1
Windows Update ×1
Windows ecosystem ×1
Windows security ×1
Windows via Boot Camp (Intel models) ×1
Windows x64 ×1

Statements (98)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	graphical operating system → operating system family →
defaultFileSystem	NTFS →
developer	Microsoft →
distributionModel	commercial software →
hasComponent	Command Prompt → Control Panel → Device Manager → File Explorer → PowerShell → Registry Editor → Settings app → Task Manager → Windows Update →
hasDefaultBrowser	Internet Explorer → Microsoft Edge →
hasEdition	Windows 10 → Windows 11 → Windows 2000 → Windows 7 → Windows 8 → Windows 8.1 → Windows 95 → Windows 98 → Windows CE → Windows Embedded family → Windows Mobile → Windows NT → Windows Phone → Windows Server family → Windows Vista → Windows XP → Windows for Workgroups →
hasPackageManager	Microsoft Store → winget →
hasShell	Windows Shell →
hasWindowManager	Desktop Window Manager →
initialReleaseDate	1985-11-20 →
initialReleaseVersion	Windows 1.0 →
kernelType	hybrid kernel →
license	proprietary software →
operatedBy	Microsoft →
ownedBy	Microsoft →
previousFileSystem	FAT16 → FAT32 →
primaryMarket	business desktops → embedded devices → laptops → personal computers → servers → tablets →
programmingLanguage	C → C# → C++ →
supports	ARM architecture → x86 architecture → x86-64 architecture →
supportsAPI	.NET → .NET Core → .NET Framework → Universal Windows Platform → Win32 API → WinUI →
supportsAuthentication	Windows Hello →
supportsDevelopmentTool	Visual Studio → Visual Studio Code →
supportsDirectoryService	Active Directory →
supportsFileSystem	exFAT →
supportsInputMethod	game controller → keyboard → mouse → pen → touch → voice →
supportsMultimediaFramework	DirectShow → DirectX → Media Foundation →
supportsNetworkingProtocol	FTP → HTTP → HTTPS → SMB → TCP/IP →
supportsPlatform	2-in-1 PC → PC → server → tablet →
supportsRemoteAccess	Remote Assistance → Remote Desktop Protocol →
supportsSecurityFeature	BitLocker → User Account Control → Windows Defender → Windows Firewall →
supportsUpdateChannel	General Availability Channel → Long-Term Servicing Channel → Windows Insider Program →
supportsVirtualization	Hyper-V → Windows Sandbox →
userInterface	graphical user interface →

Referenced by (410)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
.NET Framework → AOL Desktop ("Microsoft Windows") → ActiveX ("Microsoft Windows") → Adobe Acrobat ("Microsoft Windows") → Adobe After Effects → Adobe Audition → Adobe Creative Cloud → Adobe Dreamweaver ("Microsoft Windows") → Adobe Express → Adobe Illustrator → Adobe InDesign ("Microsoft Windows") → Adobe Lightroom → Adobe Photoshop → Adobe XD → Apple Safari → Bitcoin Core → Bixby ("Windows (via Samsung apps)") → Brave → CCleaner Browser ("Microsoft Windows") → Cent Browser → ChakraCore → Chromium → Comodo Dragon ("Microsoft Windows") → Control Panel ("Microsoft Windows") → Cygwin ("Microsoft Windows") → Desktop Window Manager ("Microsoft Windows") → Device Manager ("Microsoft Windows") → DirectShow ("Microsoft Windows") → DirectX ("Microsoft Windows") → Docker → Eclipse IDE → File Explorer ("Microsoft Windows") → GNU Awk ("Microsoft Windows") → GNU Binutils → GNU Emacs → GNU Make ("Microsoft Windows") → GNU Octave → GNU Privacy Guard → GNU Wget → GNU toolchain ("Microsoft Windows") → Google Chat → Google Chrome → Google Chrome Canary → Google Docs → Google Earth ("Microsoft Windows") → Google Workspace → Hyper-V → IBM Db2 → IntelliJ IDEA → Internet Explorer ("Microsoft Windows") → Internet Explorer ("Windows 95") → Internet Explorer ("Windows 8") → Internet Explorer ("Windows 10") → Internet Explorer ("Windows Server") → Iron Browser → Lotus 1-2-3 ("Microsoft Windows") → Lotus Notes ("Microsoft Windows") → Macromedia ("Microsoft Windows") → MariaDB → Microsoft Access ("Microsoft Windows") → Microsoft Edge → Microsoft Excel → Microsoft Outlook → Microsoft PowerPoint → Microsoft Publisher ("Microsoft Windows") → Microsoft Surface → Microsoft Surface ("Windows 10") → Microsoft Surface ("Windows 11") → Microsoft Teams → MinGW ("Microsoft Windows") → Mosaic ("Microsoft Windows") → Mozilla Firefox → MySQL → NVIDIA Omniverse ("Microsoft Windows") → Naver Whale → NetBeans IDE → Netscape Directory Server ("Microsoft Windows") → Netscape Mail ("Microsoft Windows") → Netscape Navigator ("Microsoft Windows") → OneNote → Opera → Opera → PGP ("Microsoft Windows") → PSCP ("Microsoft Windows") → Plink ("Microsoft Windows") → PostgreSQL → PowerShell → Presto ("Microsoft Windows") → PuTTY ("Microsoft Windows") → R → RStudio → Registry Editor ("Microsoft Windows") → Rider → Roslyn compiler → SQL Server → SQL Server Data Tools → SQL Server Management Studio → SQL Server Reporting Services → SRWare Iron → Slack → Snap Camera → Sony VAIO computers ("Microsoft Windows") → StarOffice ("Microsoft Windows") → Subsurface → Surface Pro → Tableau → Task Manager ("Microsoft Windows") → Telegram → Trident ("Microsoft Windows") → Trident layout engine ("Microsoft Windows") → Turbo Pascal → Ungoogled Chromium → User Account Control ("Microsoft Windows") → VBScript ("Microsoft Windows") → VirtualBox → Visual Studio → Visual Studio Code → Vivaldi → WebKit → WebObjects → Win32 API ("Microsoft Windows") → WinUI → Windows Communication Foundation → Windows Defender → Windows Firewall ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows Presentation Foundation → Windows Shell ("Microsoft Windows") → XEmacs ("Microsoft Windows") → Yarn → iTunes ("Microsoft Windows") → npm → ripgrep →	operatingSystem
AIM ("Microsoft Windows") → AOL Instant Messenger ("Microsoft Windows") → Apple Music → Assassin's Creed III ("Microsoft Windows") → Assassin's Creed: Revelations ("Microsoft Windows") → Beyond: Two Souls ("Microsoft Windows") → C++/CLI → Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ("Microsoft Windows") → Chrome Web Store ("Microsoft Windows") → Common Language Runtime → Crysis 2 ("Microsoft Windows") → Cốc Cốc → Death Stranding → Dev channel → Developer Edition → DirectShow → Doom franchise → EVE Online ("Microsoft Windows") → Express Edition → GNAT → Google Chrome Dev → Google Drive → Google Photos ("Windows (via web)") → Google Play Games → Guitar Hero ("Microsoft Windows") → Hearthstone ("Microsoft Windows") → ICQ ("Microsoft Windows") → JD Edwards ("Microsoft Windows") → King Digital Entertainment ("Microsoft Windows") → Maxthon (Chromium-based versions) → Microsoft 365 → Microsoft Store → Microsoft Teams → MinGW ("Microsoft Windows") → Minecraft → Minecraft Dungeons ("Microsoft Windows") → Minecraft Legends → Minecraft Realms → Minecraft: Education Edition → Mosaic ("Microsoft Windows") → MyCareer mode ("Microsoft Windows") → NBA 2K ("Microsoft Windows") → NBA Live ("Microsoft Windows") → OneDrive → OpenJDK → Oracle JDK → Overwatch ("Microsoft Windows") → Pageant ("Microsoft Windows") → Power BI → Power View ("Microsoft Windows") → Quake franchise → Remote Desktop Protocol → RenderMan → Sky Go → Skylanders: Giants ("Microsoft Windows") → Skype → SmartScreen → Spotify → StarCraft ("Microsoft Windows") → Swift (programming language) → Swift Standard Library → TI-Nspire Navigator system → The Elder Scrolls Online ("Microsoft Windows") → The Evil Within franchise ("Microsoft Windows") → VBScript ("Microsoft Windows") → Visual Component Library ("Microsoft Windows") → Web Edition → What Remains of Edith Finch ("Microsoft Windows") → What Remains of Edith Finch → WhatsApp → Windows 95 Plus! Pack ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows Defender ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows Forms ("Microsoft Windows") → World of Warcraft ("Microsoft Windows") → gcov → iCloud → iTunes Store →	platform
Amazon Luna → Amazon Music → Automatic Storage Management ("Microsoft Windows") → Bevy → Bing Maps → Box → Brave → Bun → Cygwin ("Microsoft Windows") → Delphi ("Microsoft Windows") → Delphi ("Windows 64-bit") → Eclipse CDT → FMX ("Microsoft Windows") → G-DRIVE → GNU Compiler Collection → GNU Debugger → GNU Pascal ("Microsoft Windows") → GitHub Copilot → Google Sheets → HotSpot JVM → IBM MQ → LEGO Mindstorms EV3 → Lazarus IDE → MATLAB → MAUI → Makey Makey extension → Maps SDK for Unity → Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit → Microsoft Loop → Microsoft Word → Mojang Studios → NVIDIA Omniverse → Opera Crypto Browser → Oracle Database → Power Apps → Power Automate → PowerShell ("Windows Server") → SQL Server Management Studio ("Microsoft Windows") → SQLite → Scratch → Servo → TeamViewer → TensorFlow → The Chromium Project → Tidal → Twitch → Unity → Webex → Xamarin → Zoho Workplace → pip →	supportsPlatform
.NET Core → .NET Framework ("Microsoft Windows") → AMD64 architecture ("Windows x64") → Aircrack-ng → Amazon Corretto → Avast Secure Browser → Chromecast → Doom Emacs → Dropbox → Eclipse → Eclipse Temurin → Epic Privacy Browser → GDB → Git → Hadoop → Kinza Browser → LLVM → MacBook Pro ("Windows via Boot Camp (Intel models)") → Microsoft Azure → Multi-Touch trackpad → Node.js → PHP → SAS → Spacemacs → Sugar Labs → WhatsApp → Yandex Browser → uWSGI →	supportsOperatingSystem
CPython → Database Tuning Advisor → Deno → GPC ("Microsoft Windows") → IBM WebSphere → ODBC ("Microsoft Windows") → Power BI Report Server ("Windows Server") → Power Pivot → PyPy → SQL Server Integration Services → SQL Server Profiler → SSH → Stackless Python → Sun Java System Web Server → UPX → Windows Forms ("Windows operating system") →	runsOn
Calliope mini → HP DeskJet printers ("Windows operating systems") → Intel Core processor family ("Microsoft Windows operating systems") → Makey Makey Go ("Windows operating systems") → NVIDIA CUDA → Nearby Share ("Windows (via Google’s Nearby Share for Windows app)") → Progressive Web Apps → VFAT ("Microsoft Windows") →	compatibleWith
Active Directory ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows 1.0 ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows Embedded family → Windows Insider Program ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows NT ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows Phone → Windows RT ("Microsoft Windows") →	operatingSystemFamily
Clang → Component Pascal → Hypercorn → IBM SDK for Java → MicroPython → Uvicorn → Visual Basic .NET →	targetPlatform
Windows 10 → Windows 7 ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows 95 ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows 98 ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows ME ("Microsoft Windows") →	family
.NET Framework ("Microsoft Windows ecosystem") → Win32 API ("Microsoft Windows operating system") → Windows 11 ("Microsoft Windows family") → Windows Insider Program ("Windows ecosystem") → Windows Vista ("Microsoft Windows family") →	partOf
CRAN → IronPython → Microsoft 365 E3 → Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition ("Windows operating system") →	supports
Audible → Microsoft To Do → iTunes →	availableOn
HP Pavilion PCs → Slimjet → Torch Browser ("Microsoft Windows") →	hasOperatingSystem
Giant Sparrow → Treyarch ("Microsoft Windows") → Visual Concepts ("Microsoft Windows") →	platformsDevelopedFor
Microsoft → Microsoft ("Windows 10") → Microsoft ("Windows 11") →	product
SCTP ("Windows (via third-party stacks)") → Teredo ("Microsoft Windows") →	implementedIn
Xerox Alto user interface ("Microsoft Windows user interface") → Xerox PARC ("Microsoft Windows") →	influenced
The Elder Scrolls Online ("Microsoft Windows") → What Remains of Edith Finch ("Microsoft Windows") →	initialReleasePlatform
Bing → OneDrive ("Windows 10") →	integratedWith
Opera Software → exFAT →	operatingSystemSupport
Windows 8 ("Microsoft Windows") → Windows for Workgroups ("Microsoft Windows") →	partOfSeries
Hyper-V → VirtualBox →	supportsGuestOperatingSystem
HP OfficeJet → PlaidML →	supportsOS
Windows (via browser) ("Microsoft Windows operating system") →	accesses
Windows Embedded family ("Microsoft Windows") →	basedOn
IBM PC compatible ("Microsoft Windows") →	canRunOperatingSystem
Telnet →	commonlyAvailableOn
Windows Hello ("Windows security") →	componentOf
OLE DB ("Microsoft Windows") →	computingPlatform
AirPort →	configurationSoftwareRunsOn
Microsoft ("Windows operating system") →	developed
Apple Safari →	discontinuedOnPlatform
DirectX ("Windows operating system") →	distribution
Windows Hello →	featureOf
Apple Safari ("Microsoft Windows") →	formerAvailability
Windows ("Windows Update") →	hasComponent
Windows ("Windows Server family") →	hasEdition
mod_wsgi →	hostPlatform
Bill Gates ("Windows operating system") →	knownFor
Microsoft ("Windows operating system") →	notableFor
Bill Gates ("Microsoft Windows") →	notableWork
Lens Studio →	operatesOn
Lotus Development Corporation ("Microsoft Windows") →	operatingSystemTarget
Call of Duty ("Microsoft Windows") →	originalPlatform
Python →	osSupport
ISO 9660 →	platformCompatibility
Tango Gameworks ("Microsoft Windows") →	platformDevelopedFor
Russell family ("Microsoft Windows") →	platformOfWorkAppearingIn
Xbox Game Studios →	platformServed
Embarcadero Technologies ("Microsoft Windows") →	platformSupported
High Moon Studios ("Microsoft Windows") →	platformsWorkedOn
SMB ("Microsoft Windows") →	primarilyUsedIn
NTFS (via driver) ("Microsoft Windows") →	relatedTo
Registry Editor ("Windows operating system") →	storesConfigurationFor
NFS ("Microsoft Windows") →	supportedOn
Sun Java System Portal Server ("Microsoft Windows") →	supportedOS
Adobe Flash ("Microsoft Windows") →	supportedPlatform
Xen →	supportsGuest
KVM →	supportsGuestOS
ASP.NET →	supportsHostingEnvironment
Intel C++ Compiler →	targetOperatingSystem
ZM →	underlyingCompanyPlatformAvailability
General Availability Channel →	usedBy
SmartScreen →	usedIn
Microsoft account →	usedOnService