What is the latest operating system from Microsoft and what was the first one?

xfacilitatorx

First is Microsoft BASIC 2/1/75 Bill Gates and Paul Allen complete BASIC 3/1/75 Paul Allen joins MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) as Director of Software. , and Gates follows him later that year to form an informal partnership called Micro-soft, complete with hyphen. 11/29/75 In a letter to Paul Allen, Bill Gates uses the name "Micro-soft" to refer to their Partnership. This is the earliest known written reference. 11/1/76 Paul Allen resigns from MITS to join Microsoft full time. 11/26/76 The tradename "Microsoft" is registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico "to identify computer programs for use in automatic data processing systems; pre-programming processing systems; and data processing services including computer programming services." The application says that the name has been in continuous use since November 12, 1975. Other First-generation machines that ran Microsoft BASIC included computers from Atari, Cromemco, and Texas Instruments, built around a mind-numbing range of processors that included the Z-80, 8080, 6800, 6809, 6502, and 68000. Because most machines had unique designs with proprietary (and usually primitive) operating systems, the Microsoft development team had to create a specialized version of each language for each computer. http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm Latest? Can not find anything past Windows XP Apr 08 06, 3:45 PM

teash

The first operating system was called MS-DOS. The last release is XP but the next release will be called "Vista". It was supposed to be released by Christmas 2005 but it is delayed at least one year. Apr 08 06, 3:59 PM

xfacilitatorx

Microsoft announces Microsoft XENIX OS. 1980. 8/12/81 IBM introduces its Personal Computer, which uses Microsoft's 16-bit operating system, MS-DOS 1.0, plus Microsoft BASIC, COBOL, PASCAL, and other Microsoft products. Apr 08 06, 4:17 PM