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Microsoft Windows is an operating system designed to run on Industry Standard computers. Variants exist for servers, PC's and Laptops, Thin Clients and for mobile devices like Netbooks and phones. Windows acts as a standardised platform upon which a wide variety of applications can be run.

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The first personal computers (PCs) were launched in 1981 by IBM. In designing the PC, the newly formed division within IBM decided to collaborate with an established chip manufacturer to help with the internal architecture called Intel. For the operating system, IBM turned to a virtually unheard of and very young company - called Microsoft.

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