Operating system Chromium OS. Microsoft Windows is a family of proprietary operating systems designed by Microsoft Corporation and primarily targeted to Intel architecture based computers, with an estimated 88.9 percent total usage share on Web connected computers. The latest version is Windows 10. In 2011, Windows 7 overtook Windows XP as most common version in use. Microsoft Windows was first released in 1985, as an operating environment running on top of MS-DOS, which was the standard operating system shipped on most Intel architecture personal computers at the time. In 1995, Windows 95 was released which only used MS-DOS as a bootstrap. For
Criticism of Windows Vista of additional Windows Ultimate Extras that it is confident will delight its passionate Windows Vista Ultimate customers." This term was coined as a disparaging substitute for the proper name of the Vista operating system. Use of the term was popularized by its use on "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs", a technology and pop culture comedic blog where author Daniel Lyons writes in the persona of then Apple CEO Steve Jobs. This use is in reference to the failure of Vista to meet sales and customer satisfaction expectations. Lyons published an article in "Forbes" using the term, and it was