Template:Infobox Windows version/doc

Purpose
This infobox provides essential information on versions of Windows.

Usage
The following code will result in the infobox to the right side:

The marketing name for the particular Windows release. If not provided, it gets automatically filled in according to  and   values, therefore   should be omitted for pre-1995 Windows versions.

This describes the product line the particular Windows release belongs to. This parameter has the following legal values, which expand to the respective descriptions:

This parameter has been introduced on 2018-12-24 and therefore many articles place the family description directly in the  parameter. The template automatically detects this and places such articles in a special category and appends an exclamation mark to the family value in the infobox.

A listing of architectures supported by the particular Windows release. Tends to be one or more of the following:
 * x86
 * x64
 * AXP
 * PPC
 * IA64
 * ARM
 * ARM64

Link to the latest build of the particular Windows release.

The original release date of the particular Windows release, e.g. 1985-11-20 for Windows 1.0.

The end of support date for the particular Windows release.

List of the SKUs/editions that the particular Windows release was officially available in, separated by  tags.

, ,
Use this to link to the versions of Windows that the particular release is based on, replaces or is replaced by. If this applies only to a specific SKU of that version, the link should mention the SKU in question, e.g. Windows 2000 Professional.

should be used in cases the particular Windows release builds upon another version to provide some specific functionality, e.g. Windows Home Server is based on Windows Small Business Server 2003 and that in turn is based on Windows Server 2003.