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Windows* is a personal computer operating system written and maintained by Microsoft. Windows is operated with (or Interfaced to by using the mouse, keyboard and screen. Operating system means just that; it is software that operates all the complex electronics that make up a modern personal computer. Windows consist of millions of lines of instructions that work together to achieve the easy to use look and feel of the computer that we are (mostly) familiar with today.
 

n the early days of home computers the “Operating System”, such as it was, consisted of a collection of similar types of software instructions to those used today, but usually fixed into the computer when it was manufactured. This software (or more correctly firmware) enabled very simple and fundamental operation of the computer’s electronics. It performed very simple operations such as setting up the electronics ready for initial operation, accepting keystrokes and then displaying the typed characters on the screen. In conjunction with this a programming method, generally BASIC was also included but again fixed into the computer. The result was a whole generation of people trying to program their shiny new toy to get it to do something useful!
 

All this of course is now in the distant computer past and our modern computers are ready to do usefull work almost immediately. The software and firmware that enable this are still similar to those early days but have become far more complex and sophisticated.

Those old machines did have one advantage though - if it got “messed up” it was a simple matter of turning it off and then on to get back to square one!

*Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation