how many versions of windows?

[prx984]

thats insane, i must say.

[Delprat]

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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Edited July 3, 2006 by Delprat

[prx984]

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.

[Delprat]

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.org/wiki/Windows_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.org/wiki/Windows_98_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.org/wiki/Microsoft_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.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows

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[prx984]

first post updated extensively 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

[awergh]

dont forget

Windows 3.0

Windows 3.1

Windows 3.11

Windows 3.1\3.11 are different to Windows for Workgroups 3.1\3.11

[Andromeda43]

I'm sorry, that looked like a very long thread and my time is limited so, I didn't read the whole thing...

did anyone mention:

XP Pro/Stripped to the Bone

XP Pro/Corporate/Export edition

XT (XP Pro with some Vista incorporated into it)

Oh yes, the first version of windows that I ever tried was Windows 2.0.

What a piece of granola that was!

Happy 4th of July, everyone,

B)

[gamehead200]

XP Pro/Stripped to the Bone

XP Export edition

XT (XP Pro with some Vista incorporated into it)

Those are not official operating systems...

[Aegis]

Windows XP Starter Edition in Thailand

Windows XP Starter Edition in Turkey

Windows XP Starter Edition in Malaysia

Windows XP Starter Edition in Indonesia

Windows XP Starter Edition in Russia

Windows XP Starter Edition in India

Windows XP Starter Edition in Brazil

Windows XP Starter Edition in Argentina

Windows XP Starter Edition in Chile

Windows XP Starter Edition in Mexico

Windows XP Starter Edition in Ecuador

Windows XP Starter Edition in Uruguay

Windows XP Starter Edition in Venezuela

And Windows XP 64-Bit Edition is different than Windows XP x64 Edition (Former is for IA64-based Itanium processors while the latter is for AMD64-based processors).

Edited July 5, 2006 by Aegis

[EchoNoise]

How about...

TOO MANY, lol

[awergh]

What about

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs

http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/program...ndamentals.mspx

[os2fan2]

I have a version of Windows 2.11 (w286 and w386 versions) and 3.01 lieing around here.

Also, you forget WinOS/2 in 3.0 and 3.1 versions (i have both!). Although WinOS/2 3.1 has been upgraded with successive versions of OS/2 (ie 2.1, 2.3, 2.31, 2.4, 2.45, 2.451), it does not really count, i suppose...

Windows 3.0 also has a subspecies Win30mm (multimedia extensions), but this is rare and hard to come by).

There's also Windows 3.2 as well, it's a chinese release, though.

Of the Win9x, i usually rate 5 releases, eg

OS/R1 = 950, 950a

OS/R2 = 1111, 1212, 1214

OS/R3 = 1998 (98fe) =

OS/R4 = 2222 (98se) = suckers edition

OS/R5 = 3000 (98me) = multiple errors

[prx984]

why did i all of a sudden stop gettin emails to this post? weird, anyway thanks again, ill update in just a second.

[Shindo_Hikaru]

Windows 1.1 (1.0 - Rumor version, not official)

Windows 1.2

Windows 1.3

Windows 1.4

Windows 1.x - Killed for 2.0

Windows 2.0

Windows 2.1 for 286

Windows 2.1 for 386

Windows 3.0 ( Could run in Real mode, Standard mode, 86 Enhanced mode, Multimedia Extensions only for OEM PC's and could not run in Real mode)

Windows 3.1

Modular Windows - special windows for a long dead Video Info system.

Windows 3.1 for Workgroups

Windows 3.11

Windows 3.11 for Workgroups

Windows 3.2 for Workgroups - made for Chinese markets only

Windows NT 3.1

Windows NT 3.51

Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1

Windows NT Server 3.5

Windows NT Server 3.51

Windows 95

Windows 95 SP1

Windows 95OEM1 4.00.950A

Windows 95OEM2 4.00.950B (4.00.1111)

Windows 95OEM3 2.1 4.00.950B (4.03.1212-1214)

Windows 95OEM4 2.5

Windows 98 (Windows)

Windows 98 (Windows 4.1) Second Edition 2222A

Windows 98 (Windows 4.1) Second Edition 2222B

Windows Millennium Edition (Windows 4.9) (Their is another edition of ME that was released that had non Plug and Play drivers removed)

Windows NT 4.0 Workstation

Windows NT 4.0 Server

Windows NT 4.0 Server Enterprise Edition

Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server

Windows 2000 was available in five editions:

Windows 2000 Professional

Windows 2000 Server

Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

Windows 2000 Small Business Server

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, a low-end version of Windows XP that is intended to be a thin-client that works with older hardware.

Windows Embedded (CE, totally different from all Windows versions), for embedded systems, open sorce

Windows (CE) Moble for smart phones and PDAs

Windows (CE) Media Center for Digital Media Players

Window XP Embedded

Windows XP Home Edition

Windows XP Home Edition N - mandated by a European Union ruling

Windows XP Professional

Windows XP Professional N - mandated by a European Union ruling

Windows XP Media Center Edition , released in November 2002

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, released on October 12, 2004.

Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Windows XP Starter Edition, for new computer users in developing countries

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition,for home and workstation systems utilizing 64-bit processors based on the x86 instruction set (AMD calls this AMD64, Intel calls it Intel EM64T)

Windows XP 64-bit Edition, is a version for Intel's Itanium line of processors; maintains 32-bit compatibility solely through a software emulator. It is roughly analogous to Windows XP Professional in features. It was discontinued in September 2005 when the last vendor of Itanium workstations stopped shipping Itanium systems marketed as "Workstations".

Windows Server 2003 is available in seven editions:

Small Business Server

Web Edition

Standard Edition

Enterprise Edition (32 and 64-bit)

Datacenter Edition

Compute Cluster Edition

Storage Server

Windows Vista

Windows Vista Business

Windows Vista Enterprise

Windows Vista Home Premium

Windows Vista Home Basic

Windows Vista Ultimate

Windows OS's in the works

Windows Server "Longhorn"

Windows "Vienna" (formerly known as Blackcomb), slated to be Vista's successor.

Windows Mönch

Windows Fuji

Cancelled Windows

Cairo (a "true object-oriented OS") planned after Windows NT

Windows Nashville (Windows 96) (Became Windows 95B.)

Windows Neptune was sent out to beta testers but was never released. Should have been a consumer version (i.e. home edition) of Windows 2000.

For the people who want it listed here is the list of MS/IMB joint OS/2.

OS/2 1

OS/2 1.1

OS/2 1.2

OS/2 1.3

OS/2 2

OS/2 2.1

OS/2 for Windows

OS/2 2.11

OS/2 2.11 SMP

Edited note:

This list is part of my Windows Versions Database i have for references.

Edited August 2, 2006 by Shindo_Hikaru