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how many versions of windows? how many can you count?

#1 User is offline   prx984 

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Posted 01 July 2006 - 06:58 PM

Windows 1.01
Windows 1.02
Windows 1.03
Windows 1.04
Windows 2.0
Windows 286
Windows 386 (2.1)
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.0 Multimedia Extensions
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows For Workgroups 3.1
Windows For Workgroups 3.11
Windows 3.2 (chinese)
Mini-Windows 3.2

Windows 9x Based

Windows 95 Retail 950r6
Windows 95 Retail SP1
Windows 95 OEM SR 1
Windows 95 OEM SR 2
Windows 95 OEM SR 2.1
Windows 95 OEM SR 2.5
Windows 98 FR
Windows 98 SE 2222A
Windows 98 SE 2222B
Windows ME

Windows NT Based Operating Systems

NT 3 Based

Windows NT 3.1
Windows NT 3.51
Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
Windows NT Server 3.5
Windows NT Server 3.51

NT 4 Based

Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Windows NT Server 4.0
Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition
Windows NT Server Terminal Server Edition

NT 5 Based

Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home Edition-N
Windows XP Professional-N
Windows XP Embedded
Windows XP Professional x64
Windows XP Professional x64-N
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005

Windows 2003 Small Business Server
Windows 2003 Web Edition
Windows 2003 Standard Edition
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition
Windows 2003 Compute Cluster Server
Windows 2003 Storage Server

NT 6 Based

Windows Starter 2007
Windows Vista Home Basic
Windows Vista Home Basic N
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows Vista Business
Windows Vista Business N
Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Ultimate

Mobile Versions

Windows CE 1.0
Windows CE 1.01
Windows CE 2.0
Windows CE 2.10
Windows CE 2.11
Windows CE 2.12
Windows CE 3.0
Pocket PC 2000
Handheld PC 2000
Pocket PC 2002
Windows CE 4.x
Windows CE 4.0 .net
Windows CE 4.1 Net
Windows CE 4.2 Net
Windows Mobile 2003
Windows Mobile 2003 SE
Windows CE 5.0
Windows Mobile 5.0

*N = European version Without media player

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European version of the same, but without Media Player (because of antitrust rulings against MS in the EU).


I've lost count on how many there are.

Thanks go out to, Bi0haZarD, luke.mccormick, Delprat, LLXX, awergh, -I-, and Biohead. Thanks to anyone else who has contributed, but doesn't have your name here.

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Posted 01 July 2006 - 09:39 PM

you forgot all the diffrent flavors of Vista theres gonna be...

http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-w...have-8-choices/

i think they're actually trying to aim at Microsoft IT guys now.. lol.

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Posted 01 July 2006 - 09:49 PM

thanks biohazard for the link :)

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 04:07 AM

Windows 1.01
Windows 1.02
Windows 1.03
Windows 1.04
Windows 2.03 <- my favorite pre-3.x Windows
Windows 386 (2.1)
Windows For Workgroups 3.1
Windows For Workgroups 3.11
Mini-Windows 3.2

I collect OSs... I have ALL of the above and more :D

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 04:54 AM

What about XP x64? XP 64-bit edition?
Home Pre-N, Pro Pre-N?
Media Center Edition 2002, MCE 2004, MCE 2005?
TPC Edition 2005?

I'm sure theres more than that, they were just off the top of my head.

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 06:23 AM

View PostLLXX, on Jul 2 2006, 06:07 AM, said:

Windows 1.01
Windows 1.02
Windows 1.03
Windows 1.04
Windows 2.03 <- my favorite pre-3.x Windows
Windows 386 (2.1)
Windows For Workgroups 3.1
Windows For Workgroups 3.11
Mini-Windows 3.2

I collect OSs... I have ALL of the above and more :D


whats mini windows? iv never heard of it :blink: google will help me i bet.

View PostBiohead, on Jul 2 2006, 06:54 AM, said:

What about XP x64? XP 64-bit edition?
Home Pre-N, Pro Pre-N?
Media Center Edition 2002, MCE 2004, MCE 2005?
TPC Edition 2005?

I'm sure theres more than that, they were just off the top of my head.


your right, i forgot about the 64bit versions and the MCE versions. ill add them right now.

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 07:07 AM

3.1 for workgroups doesn't exists
there is only 3.11 for workgroeps.

And 1.0 never released officialy (alread became 1.01 als first public version).

** wil try to find referals later on....

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 07:17 AM

The Windows Server Family http://www.microsoft...rvrGraphic.mspx

Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
Windows NT Server 3.5
Windows NT Server 3.51
Windows NT Server 4.0
Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition
Windows NT Server Terminal Server Edition



You will need to change Windows NT 4 to

Windows NT Workstation 4.0


About Windows for Workgroups 3.1 have a look here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...26746#appliesto

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 08:26 AM

thanks for the info, first post updated.

everyone, thank you for your information on this. i wonder how many we can to by tuesday, i wont be on much after that until saturday, im going to driving school :P

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 07:18 PM

View Postbrian10161, on Jul 2 2006, 07:23 AM, said:

whats mini windows? iv never heard of it :blink: google will help me i bet.
"pmwin3.zip" - not really an official release... it was just on the OS disk I got the other versions from.

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And 1.0 never released officialy (alread became 1.01 als first public version).
I don't know about that, I just know it exists because I have the original disks, dated 1985-11-15 05:43.

Edit: According to several sources, of which one says "Windows 1.0 was out for only about two weeks before Microsoft released version 1.01, in order to fix several bugs." so I do have some rather rare software :)

I can prove all the versions exist, since I have the files for them on a CD (as well as original floppies for some of them).

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 07:22 PM

Don't forget all the BETA builds! ;)

We're talking over 100 different builds, maybe even more! :P

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 06:36 AM

View Postgamehead200, on Jul 2 2006, 09:22 PM, said:

Don't forget all the BETA builds! ;)

We're talking over 100 different builds, maybe even more! :P


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Posted 03 July 2006 - 07:56 AM

Missing from the list :

-> Windows 95 (floppies)
-> Windows 95 (CD-Rom, some more things if i recall correctly)

-> Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server (?)

-> Windows Server 2003 64-bits editions (sames as the 32-bits ?)

-> Windows Server 2003 R2 ??? (is "R2" an edition ?)

-> Windows XP N (i don't know if there is Home/Pro)

-> Windows 3.0 ???


What about WinPE ? WinXP Embedded ? WinCE ?

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 08:26 AM

this is beginning to become a huge post lol, thanks delprat for the information.

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 08:35 AM

server 2007(prolly gonna be a minimum of 4 releases of that)

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 08:44 AM

thats insane, i must say. :blink:

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 08:56 AM

View Postbrian10161, on Jul 3 2006, 04:26 PM, said:

this is beginning to become a huge post lol, thanks delprat for the information.


you forgot the two first Win95 editions (before the 4.00.950a, there were the "gold" or "vanilla" 4.00.950)

In fact, there were more than "Win95, Win95a, Win95b & Win95c".

If i remember correctly :
Win95a : "OEM Service Release 1" (or "OSR-1") were only released to OEMs (no box edition)
Win95b : "OSR-2" were released into a box, and OSR-2.1 were released to OEMs (there were two different Win95b, both had a boot screen saying "with Internet Explorer", but OSR-2.1 had updated drivers/binaries)
Win95c : "OSR-2.5" were released only to OEMs, and added USB (USB support also released as hotfixes)

I'm sure i'm don't recall exactly, but i'm also sure there is gold (floppies/CD), osr 1, osr 2, osr 2.1 and osr 2.5 : 6 editions.

edit: now, that's really insane ;)

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 09:17 AM

i have 95 on floppies. i think its A though, it has around 18 floppies i think. i can get them later on and find out.

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 10:46 AM

View Postbrian10161, on Jul 3 2006, 05:17 PM, said:

i have 95 on floppies. i think its A though, it has around 18 floppies i think. i can get them later on and find out.


http://en.wikipedia....ows_95#Editions

As you can see, there is 6 editions. (i were right on that ! but not for the rest)


If you look on this page : http://en.wikipedia...._Second_Edition
you'll see there is two Win98 SE : 2222A & 2222B


if you update the first post, you really should sort all of this by families and technology (see http://en.wikipedia....crosoft_Windows ) :
windows 1, 2
windows 3
windows 4 (95, 98, Me)
windows NT 3
windows NT 4
windows NT 5 (2000, XP, 2003, XPe, PE)
windows NT 6 (Vista)
windows CE (at least 3 versions, and multiple editions like PocketPC or Windows Mobile 2003)

see also : http://en.wikipedia....crosoft_Windows

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 11:49 AM

first post updated extensively :blink: so many, i counted well over 70 different versions the first time, then i wanted to double check (i had 78) but then people around me wouldn't be quiet so i kept losing count. after the 10th time, i just said meh, theres over 70 versions. lol. anyway, thats quite the resources.

thanks for all the replies :D

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