Microsoft Windows: Difference between revisions

| Windows 11<br />Windows Server 2025

| {{yes}}

! colspan="6" |<h3>DOS-based Windows family</h3>

!Name

!Version

!Code name

!Release date

|1.0

|Interface Manager<br />Window Manager

|{{nowrap|1985-11-20}}

| rowspan="6" |{{nowrap|2001-12-31}}

|First release of Windows  

|Windows 1.5<ref>http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03414.pdf#page=21</ref>

|{{nowrap|1987-12-09}}  

|Introduced overlapping windows

|3.0

|{{nowrap|1990-05-22}}

|Introduced Program Manager

|{{nowrap|1992-03-08}}

|An updated version, Windows 3.11, was released in 1993

|Sparta<br />Winball

|{{nowrap|1992-10-27}}

|An updated version of Windows 3.1 with a built-in networking client

|3.11

|Snowball

|{{nowrap|1993-08-11}}

| colspan="6" style="font-size: 90%" |{{version legend|show=111111}}

! colspan="6" |<h4>[[Windows 9x]]</h4>

!Release date

!Support end date

|4.00

|Chicago

|{{nowrap|2001-12-31}}

|Introduced the desktop, Start menu and taskbar

| rowspan="2" |4.10

|Nashville

|Never released; project goals transferred to Memphis and [[Internet Explorer 4]]

|Memphis

|{{nowrap|1998-06-25}}

| rowspan="2" |{{nowrap|2006-07-11}}

|Second Edition was released on 5 May 1999

|4.90  

|Millennium

|{{nowrap|2000-09-14}}

| colspan="6" style="font-size: 90%" |{{version legend|show=111111}}  

! colspan="6" |<h3>Windows NT family</h3>

!Name

!Version

!Code name

!Release date

!Support end date

!Notes

|3.10

|Razzle

|{{nowrap|1993-07-27}}

|{{nowrap|2000-12-31}}

|First release of Windows NT

|3.50

|Daytona  

|{{nowrap|1994-09-21}}

|{{nowrap|2001-12-31}}

|3.51

|{{nowrap|1995-05-30}}

|{{nowrap|2002-09-30}}

| rowspan="4" |4.0

|Cairo

|Never released; many of its features were later released as part of other versions

|{{nowrap|1996-07-31}}

|{{nowrap|2004-06-30}}

|Hydra

|{{nowrap|2004-12-31}}

|Impala

|{{nowrap|1999-08-30}}  

| rowspan="2" |5.0

|{{nowrap|2000-02-17}}

| rowspan="2" |{{nowrap|2010-07-13}}

|{{nowrap|2001-04-01}}

|Odyssey

| rowspan="2" |Never released; was merged with other projects to form Whistler

|5.50

|Neptune

| rowspan="10" |5.1

|Whistler

|{{nowrap|2001-10-25}}

|{{nowrap|2014-04-08}}

|{{nowrap|2001-10-25}}

|{{nowrap|2005-01-05}}  

|Special edition for Itanium-based (IA-64) workstations, mostly analogous to Windows XP Professional

|Mantis<ref>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/aa459171(v=msdn.10)</ref>

|{{nowrap|2001-11-28}}

|{{nowrap|2016-01-12}}

|Freestyle<br />Harmony<br />Symphony

|{{nowrap|2002-10-28}}

| rowspan="3" |{{nowrap|2014-04-08}}

|Updated versions were released in 2003 and 2004 respectively

|{{nowrap|2002-11-07}}

|An updated version was released in 2004

|Restricted version of Windows XP Home Edition for developing markets

|{{nowrap|2005-05-24}}

|{{nowrap|2016-04-12}}  

|Eiger

|{{nowrap|2006-07-08}}

|{{nowrap|2014-04-08}}

| rowspan="2" |Quebec

|{{nowrap|2008-10-16}}

|{{nowrap|2019-01-08}}

|{{nowrap|2008-12-09}}

|{{nowrap|2019-04-09}}

| rowspan="5" |5.2

|{{nowrap|2003-03-28}}

|{{nowrap|2005-01-05}}

|Updated version of the Windows client for the IA-64 architecture. Based on Windows Server 2003 codebase

|{{nowrap|2003-04-24}}  

|{{nowrap|2015-07-14}}

|Bobcat

|{{nowrap|2003-10-09}}

|{{nowrap|2016-04-12}}

|{{nowrap|2005-04-25}}

|{{nowrap|2014-04-08}}

|First Windows client for the x86-64 architecture. Based on Windows Server 2003 codebase

|Quattro

|{{nowrap|2007-11-04}}

|{{nowrap|2013-08-01}}

| rowspan="4" |6.0

| rowspan="2" |Longhorn

|{{nowrap|2007-01-30}}

|{{nowrap|2017-04-11}}

| rowspan="2" |Development was reset in 2004

| rowspan="2" | {{nowrap|2008-11-12}}

{{nowrap|2020-01-14}}{{efn|Supported until 10 January 2023 via the paid Extended Security Updates service for volume licensed Professional and Enterprise copies.}}  

|{{nowrap|2010-02-24}}  

| {{nowrap|2016-04-12}}

|Thin PC

| WMS 3

| {{nowrap|2013-10-17}}

! colspan="6" |<h4>[[Windows 10]] updates</h4>

| {{nowrap|2015-11-10}}

| rowspan="2" |{{nowrap|2017-10-17}}  

| Semi-Annual Channel release

| Semi-Annual Channel release

| rowspan="2" | 1903

| rowspan="2" |Vanadium<ref name="vanadium">https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-comes-after-windows-10-19h1-vanadium/</ref>{{efn|Vanadium is a cumulative update for version 1903 (Titanium), although it is considered a distinct development semester by Microsoft.}}  

| rowspan="2" | {{nowrap|2019-11-12}}

| rowspan="2" |20H2  

|{{nowrap|2031-10-14}}  

! colspan="6" |<h4>[[Windows 11]] and updates</h4>

|[[Cobalt]]  

| {{nowrap|2022-09-20}}

|{{nowrap|2023-10-31}}  

| rowspan="2" |24H2

| rowspan="2" |[[Germanium]]  

! colspan="6" |<h4> Active development branch</h4>

*[[Azure Stack HCI]]  

* [[Desktop Window Manager]]

*[[Timebomb]]  

* [[Windows Help]]