List of Microsoft operating systems

The following is a list of Microsoft written and published operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. For another list of versions of Microsoft Windows, see, List of Microsoft Windows versions.

MS-DOS

Windows
Main article: List of Microsoft Windows versions
See also: Microsoft Windows


Name Date of release
Windows 1.0 1985-11-20
Windows 2.x 1987-12-09
Windows 3.0 1990-05-22
Windows 3.1 1992-03-08
Windows NT 3.1 1993-10-27
Windows NT 3.5 1994-09-21
Windows NT 3.51 1995-05-30
Windows 95 1995-08-24
Windows NT 4.0 1996-07-31
Windows 98 1998-06-25
Windows 2000 2000-02-17
Windows ME 2000-09-14
Windows XP 2001-10-25
Windows Server 2003 2003-04-24
Windows Server 2003 R2 2005-??-??
Windows Vista 2007-01-30
Windows Server 2008 2008-02-27
Windows Server 2008 R2 2009-07-22
Windows 7 2009-10-22
Windows Server 2012 2012-09-04
Windows 8 2012-10-26
Windows 8.1 2013-10-17
Windows Server 2012 R2 2013-10-18
Windows CE
AutoPC
Pocket PC
Pocket PC 2000 2000
Pocket PC 2002 2002
Portable Media Center
Portable Media Center
Windows Mobile

Windows 10 + Windows Server 2016/2019 (Goes up to modern day)
Name Date of release Update version
Windows 10 2015-07-29 N/A
Windows 10 (1511) 2015-11-10 November (1511)
Windows 10 (1607) 2016-08-02 Anniversary (1607)
Windows Server 2016
Windows 10 (1703) 2017-04-05 Creators (1703)
Windows 10 (1709) 2017-10-17 Fall Creators (1709)
Windows Server (1709)
Windows 10 (1803) 2018-04-30 April 2018 (1803)
Windows Server (1803)
Windows 10 (1809) 2018-11-13 October 2018 (1809)
Windows Server (1809)
Windows Server 2019
Windows 10 (1903) 2019-05-21 May 2019 (1903)
Windows Server (1903)
Windows 10 (1909) 2019-11-12 November 2019 (1909)
Windows Server (1909)
Windows 10 (2004) 2020-05-27 May 2020 (2004)
Windows Server (2004)
Windows 10 Mobile 2015
Windows 10X 2020

Windows Phone
Main article: Windows Phone
Name Date of release
Windows Phone 7 2010
Windows Phone 8 2012
Windows Phone 8.1 2014

Windows Mobile

Xbox gaming

OS/2
Main article: OS/2
Version Date of release
1 1987
1.1 1988
1.2 1989
1.3 1990

Other operating systems

Time line
A family tree of operating systems created by Microsoft. This time line is neither complete nor comprehensive. For example, Windows Server and Windows Embedded families are left out.
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gollark: This can probably just be read as "strong time preference" again, I guess, *partly*.
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