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Why Is Microsoft Windows So Popular?

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With the launch of Windows, Microsoft company has forever changed the world of personal computers compatible with IBM-PC. Microsoft has to reach millions of users of these computers by offering a friendly graphic interface, easy to use. Although at first it was regarded more as a fun element, as a joke and not as a tool for more serious users, Windows has become the standard for hardware and software compatibility. With the launch of Windows 95, Microsoft has changed the world of computers, changing the appearance and the mode of working with a computer.

Microsoft Company has devoted years of intense research in the operating system field to make the systems easier to learn and use than previous operating systems. The users of this system called Windows (Windows 98 operating system, Windows Millennium, Windows NT, Windows 2000 family and the new Windows versions) can launch programs, create documents and, in general, can become productive much easier than in previous Windows versions.

However, despite its ease of use and graphic interface that was provided, Windows 95 was not entirely intuitive. In fact, even experienced users have found that Microsoft went through a period of learning and adjustments. And after this period of learning and transition, the work was more productive with the new Windows operating system than it was with older versions – Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1.

MS-Windows is an operating and programming environment that provides user friendly graphic interface, based on screen windows and modern modes of interaction: menus, buttons, on-screen graphics cursor, “boxes” and other dialog forms. This explains the great popularity enjoyed, especially after its last release. Windows has many additional features to the standard DOS environment: the graphic user interface, the implementation of (quasi) simultaneous programs, computer hardware virtualization resources for sharing more programs, opportunities for exchanging the data between applications and more. Thus, a DOS program has exclusive access to the internal memory, the entire screen of the console and equipment using an input / output method.

In Windows, all computer resources are shared between programs that run simultaneously. A Windows program has access only to a physical screen area, which is the “window” to work. It is used not only for display, but also for any operation that needs user interaction. Windows programs can run simultaneously on the screen surface; they can be resized and moved on the screen. Also, when viewing content or when user interaction is required, they can be temporarily transformed into “icons” – small graphic symbols – to free up screen space.

The functions called for displaying the Windows programs are independent of device: the same functions can be used to display text or graphics to a printer or a high resolution display.

In addition, Windows provides a standardized interaction via keyboard and mouse device. The interaction is driven by the graphical objects displayed in the application: menus, buttons, lists of options, controls of editing and more. The users quickly become familiar with these means of interaction because they are simple and intuitive. They also are found in all Windows applications, and are scheduled by calling functions from Windows libraries. In this way, Windows allows users to create standardized interfaces.

Windows is a multitasking operating environment (based on “cooperation” between applications). It provides the execution and simultaneous viewing of multiple programs that are “Windows applications”, in other words programs that do not apply directly to your computer’s physical resources, but through Windows libraries, thus use the system option to manage these resources and share them in a more secure way.11


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