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Under Wikipedias verifiability policy, could anyone provide verfiable historical citations for the following statement.

"Windows NT and its successors are designed for security (including on a network) and multi-user PCs, but were not initially designed with Internet security in mind as much, since, when it was first developed in the early 1990s, Internet use was less prevalent.[24]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows#Security

"The hottest content server on the Internet? Microsoft Marvel. It’s already integrated with all of these services and has a huge content base and commercial vendor support. Perhaps most importantly, Marvel solves the difficult electronic commerce problem well ahead of the Internet: the ability to securely purchase goods in a networked environment"

http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/timeline/timeline/docs/di_killerapp_InternetMemo.rtf emacsuser (talk) 13:37, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft has posted the October date on their Windows 7 site, it says :

When will Windows 7 be available?

Windows 7 will be generally available on October 22, 2009. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order-faq.aspx

Is there real evidence of Windows 8 or are they just trying to joke that Windows 8 is what triggers the end of the world? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.250.3.65 (talk) 05:48, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Aren't we going to update the "Windows History" section to include Windows 7?? Besides, I'm not sure about Windows 8. The link mentioned above leads me to Micro Soft Careers, and it has no info about Windows 8. TKhaldi (talk) 10:06, 28 January 2010

It's showing up in the text as: <refSchneier, Bruce (2005-06-15). "Crypto-Gram Newsletter". Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.. http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0506.html. Retrieved 2007-04-22. </ref>

Version reported for Windows 2000 in table under "Timeline of releases" sub section is slightly wrong. Table lists 5.0.2195 when in fact typing "ver" at the command line on a windows 2000 box will yield 5.00.2195 (an extra middle zero.) I would edit the page myself but cannot. Nathanlh (talk) 19:36, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about this anecdote:
"During 2004 part of the Source Code for Windows 2000 was leaked onto the internet. This was bad for Microsoft as the same kernel used in Windows 2000 was used in Windows XP." This isn't well written and it isn't explained how it was bad for them. Did they lose customers? Was a new virus created with the information? Did their stock fall?Everett3 (talk) 21:02, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How do I turn off this feature? I don't need it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.252.237.1 (talk) 22:22, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I added an out of date tag to the security part of the windows article because almost all of the information in the section is pre vista, and vista provided many more security updates than just UAC and Windows defender (which was not mentioned in there to be a part of vista and 7) It doesn't have things that were introduced in windws 7 like hardware virtulization.Johnclow13 09:18, 22 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnclow13 (talk • contribs)

http://www.bitstrips.com/user/34843/read.php?comic_id=401374&subsection=1 There has been lots of discussion whether windows 7 is better than windows xp. well windows xp is not all that secure as you may think. windows xp has almost as many security problems as vista. vista was a completely insane idea by Microsoft. xp=ok vista=? 7=good. vista was basically LIKE and updated version of ME (millennium) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roswell98 (talk • contribs) 01:39, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Toward the top of the Windows article, before the description of Versions 3.0 & 3.1, the sentence, "Unlike MS-DOS, Windows allowed users to execute multiple graphical applications at the same time" should be corrected to something like " ...... multiple AND graphical ...... ), to avoid the erroneous implication that MS-DOS would be a graphical OS.

Thank you

01:21, 12 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.144.73.139 (talk)

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cricrosoft -> Microsoft

63.68.134.10 (talk) 19:07, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]