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Windows 8.1 includes improved support for high-resolution monitors. A desktop scaling feature now helps resize the items on the desktop to solve the visibility problems on screens with a very high native resolution. Windows 8.1 also introduces per-display DPI scaling, and provides an option to scale to 200%. File Explorer
Multilingual User Interface. Comparison of Windows 7 Start Menu with English selected in the left image, and Japanese selected in the right. Multilingual User Interface ( MUI) enables the localization of the user interface of an application. MUI is provided by Microsoft as an integrated feature of its operating system Windows 11 down to Windows ...
Windows 8 and later have native support for TPM 2.0. Windows 7 can install official patch to add TPM 2.0 support. Windows Vista through Windows 10 have native support for TPM 1.2. The Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) has been supported by the Linux kernel since version 3.20 (2012) Platforms
The following is a list of new features for Windows Display driver development in Windows 10, version 1709: Shader Model 6.1, adding support view instancing and barycentric semantics. Display ColorSpace Transform DDIs provide additional control over color space transforms applied in the post-composition display pipeline.
In Windows Vista SP1, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, after a grace period of 30 days (60 days for Windows Server 2008), the operating system will display the notice stating that the copy of Windows is not genuine and set the desktop background to black. This includes allowing only critical and ...
Internet Explorer 1 Internet Explorer 1 Logo for Internet Explorer 2. The Internet Explorer project was started in the summer of 1994 by Thomas Reardon, who, according to former project lead Ben Slivka, used source code from Spyglass, Inc. Mosaic, which was an early commercial web browser with formal ties to the pioneering National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Mosaic browser.
WoW64. In computing on Microsoft platforms, WoW64 ( W indows 32-bit o n W indows 64 -bit) is a subsystem of the Windows operating system capable of running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows. [1] It is included in all 64-bit versions of Windows, except in Windows Server Server Core where it is an optional component, and Windows Nano Server ...
Server editions of Windows are widely used, however, Windows' usage on servers is not as widespread as on personal computers as Windows competes against Linux and BSD for server market share. ReactOS is a Windows-alternative operating system, which is being developed on the principles of Windows – without using any of Microsoft's code.