Windows Vista to Windows 8 - Tshah1993/Build-a-Wiki-as-a-Team GitHub Wiki

**Windows Vista ** On November 30th, 2006 lunched the Windows vista. It’s specially designed for the business customer. The major difference between Vista and earlier versions are original start button, new graphics, new applications (such as DVD maker, Calendar, etc.). It’s available in 32- bit and 64bit versions. The biggest advantage of the 64-bit version is breaking the 4 gigabyte memory barrier, which 32-bit computers cannot fully access.

**Windows Server **

In 2008, Microsoft has server released year. It’s known as “Longhom” codename. In this year windows released ten editions.

  1. Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
  2. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
  3. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
  4. Windows HPC Server 2008
  5. Windows Web Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  6. Windows Storage Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  7. Windows Small Business Server 2008 (64-bit only)
  8. Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  9. Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
  10. Windows Server 2008 Foundation Server

**Windows 7 **

On July 22nd, 2009 Microsoft released Windows 7. It was known by Blackcomb and Vienna. This window some well-known features are faster booting, device stage, user account control, power shell, etc. In addition, some of the countries are other additional features are windows media player, windows media center, and internet explorer. It’s called ‘Windows 7 N’. It’s available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It’s released in following six editions. 1) Home Basic, 2) Home Premium, 3) Professional, 4) Enterprise, 5) Ultimate, 6) Starter.

In 2010, Microsoft released Thin PC and wireless operation. But the wireless operation is not that much successful in this time.

Windows Home Server 2011

Windows Home Server 2011 code named ‘Vail’. It’s released on April 6th, 2011. It was built on Windows Server 2008 R2 code base. It’s support only x86-64 hardware.

**Windows 8 **

Oct 26th, 2012 Microsoft released windows 8. During this time windows RT runs on the mobile device with 32-bit ARM processors. Windows 8 mostly focused on the touchscreen concept for the user. It’s available in following four editions. 1) windows 8, 2) Windows 8pro, 3) Windows 8 enterprise, 4) Windows RT.

In this year Microsoft released first public server in 2012.

Source file :- Windows Wikipedia