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  2. Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was announced on March 18, 2010. A beta was released on July 12, 2010. [146] [147] [148] The final version was released to the public on February 22, 2011. [149] At the time of release, it was not made mandatory. It was available via Windows Update, direct download, or by ordering the Windows 7 SP1 DVD. [150]

  3. Windows 7 editions - Wikipedia

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    Windows 7, a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system, has been released in several editions since its original release in 2009. Only Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate were widely available at retailers (including Enterprise for big businesses, companies etc.). [ 1 ] The other editions focus on other markets, such as the ...

  4. Features new to Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    It is a strict super-set of Direct3D 10.1, which was introduced in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008. Direct2D and DirectWrite, new hardware-accelerated vector graphics and font rendering APIs built on top of Direct3D 10 that are intended to replace GDI/GDI+ for screen-oriented native-code graphics and text drawing.

  5. Service pack - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP SP2 installation disc. In computing, a service pack comprises a collection of updates, fixes, or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package. Companies often release a service pack when the number of individual patches to a given program reaches a certain (arbitrary) limit, or the software ...

  6. Microsoft Windows version history - Wikipedia

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    Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Microsoft Windows, released on November 20, 1985, achieved little popularity. The project was briefly codenamed "Interface Manager" before the windowing system was implemented—contrary to popular belief that it was the original name for Windows and Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows ...

  7. List of Microsoft codenames - Wikipedia

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    Internet Explorer 1, first shipped in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95: The codename O'Hare ties into the Chicago codename for Windows 95: O'Hare International Airport is the largest airport in the city of Chicago, Illinois — in Microsoft's words, "a point of departure to distant places from Chicago". [ 115 ] Panther.

  8. Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - Wikipedia

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  9. Windows Driver Kit - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) is a software toolset from Microsoft that enables the development of device drivers for the Microsoft Windows platform. [2] It includes documentation, samples, build environments, and tools for driver developers. [3] A complete toolset for driver development also need the following: a compiler Visual Studio, Windows ...