It was developed and is owned by Microsoft Incorporation. |
It was developed and is owned by IBM. |
It was launched in 1985. |
It was launched in 1986. |
Current stable version is Windows 10. |
Current stable version is 7.2. |
It is for workstation, personal computers, media center, tablets and embedded systems. |
Its target system type is Server, NAS and workstation. |
Computer architectures supported by Windows are IA-32, x86-64, IA-64, ARM, Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC. |
Computer architectures supported are POWER, PowerPC-AS, PowerPC and Power ISA. |
Kernel type is Hybrid with modules here. |
Kernel type is Monolithic with modules. |
Package management is MSI or custom installer. |
Package management is installp and RPM. |
The native APIs are Win32 and NT API. |
The native APIs are SysV/POSIX. |
Preferred license is Proprietary and Source available. |
Preferred license is Proprietary. |
Update management is Windows Update. |
Update management is Service Update Management Assistant (SUMA). |
It has default GUI on. |
It does not have default GUI on. |
File systems supported are NTFS, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, HFS+, FATX and HFS. |
File systems supported are JFS, JFS2, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, SMBFS and GPFS. |