win32 r1 (See the current copy)

Really just Microsoft Windows

Microsoft(R) Windows(R)

See also Win32

History:

  1. DOS-based line:
    1. DOS-Shell (DOS 5.0)
    2. Windows 1.01
    3. Windows 2.0
    4. Windows 3.0
    5. Windows 3.1
    6. Windows for Workgroups 3.1
    7. Windows for Workgroups 3.11
    8. Windows 95
    9. Windows 98
    10. Windows ME
  2. NT-based line:
    1. Windows NT 3.1
    2. Windows NT 3.5
    3. Windows NT 3.51
    4. Windows NT 4.0
    5. Windows 2000
    6. Windows XP
    7. Windows Vista
    8. (soon) Windows 7

Although the name implies that the CPU word size is 32-bits, this term is probably used in such a way that it is equally applicable to Microsoft Windows on 64-bit CPUs (Win64) as well. ---