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Microsoft first released Windows for sale on November 20, 1985. Windows 1.0 was an extension of MS-DOS and was not very popular.
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MS-Windows is an Operating System developed by Microsoft.
The most commonly used versions of MS Windows are: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, and soon - Windows 7!
Before Windows and MS-DOS were popular, Microsoft was famous for making office applications on the current most popular system. The Macintosh.
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MS DOS came before windows.
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Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system for several reasons: a. Its progenitor (MS-DOS) was offered with every IBM PC back when IBM produced personal computers, making MS-DOS the defacto OS for business and home use. b. As IBM left the PC business and IBM-compatible PCs became the market standard, business (and home PC) wanted their software (in which they'd invested training time and also many hardware dollars) to continue to run - making an OS like MS Windows look like a good investment, and so PC manufacturers began to pre-install the latest version of MS Windows with every PC sold - a practice which continues to this day. The lastest version of Windows (Windows Vista) has lost a great deal of market share (approx 39% of new PC sales) when compared with the previous major version of MS Windows (Windows XP), which sold pre-installed on approximately 89% of newly-purchased PCs. The numerous reasons for this can be explored on the internet.
Technically speaking, there is no MS-DOS 8. MS-DOS 6.22 was the last version of MS-DOS released as a separate product. Future updates to MS-DOS were bundled with Windows. You can create a basic MS-DOS boot disk that is branded as being "MS-DOS 8" by formatting a floppy with the Startup disk option in Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. These are not typically considered "full" versions of MS-DOS, because they lack many of the programs conatined in 6.22 and prior.