What does Microsoft use to create Windows?

[AlTech]

How did they make versions of Windows like Vista,7,8,8.1,10 etc?

 

What OS did they use?

 

What software?

 

What hardware?

 

@Barnacules Are you allowed to say what MS used while you were working for them? Like software and OS?

[Molten]

good question, ask barnacules (https://twitter.com/Barnacules?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)

[That_Random_Guy]

If i had to guess maybe some sort of linux type os, but idk

[Xenift]

Just like early computers, everything is done with hard coding.

 

They literally made every memory cell physically with the data values.(Not now)

[QueenDemetria]

Slaves make Windows OS.

[leadeater]

NT kernel wise I would assume C/C++ and assembly as and when required. There are so many things that make up the modern Windows OS there is no one language. A lot of the features requires .Net so is not any low level programming language.

 

Hardware doesn't matter much beyond compile time and it'll be compiled on a server farm in a source controlled process.

[PetiteBob]

Mac

[comicsansms]

They probably hard code it and use regedit alot.

[VAkena]

Wow, who else's mind is blown by this question?

[LokiFire]

It's a combination of Mitsubuishi Evolution III & Soul Calibur coding.

[Dabombinable]

Let me ask MS DOS 1

[pcnoob99]

I think they build on from the latest version.

 

Edit: I thing Vista was a helvely "modefied" version of XP server.

[AlTech]

I think they build on from the latest version.

using what software?

[pcnoob99]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows

[LAwLz]

How did they make versions of Windows like Vista,7,8,8.1,10 etc?

What do you mean versions? They take for example Windows 7, develop a bunch of new stuff, changes some old stuff, bundle it all together and then releases Windows 8.

 

What OS did they use?

Probably another version of Windows.

 

What software?

That will probably vary from developer to developer. The one who wrote the code for the settings "app" might have done it in Visual Studio because he likes that, but the one who developed for example parts of the JS engine in Edge might have done so in NotePad++. I don't know how strict Microsoft are with which software you are allowed to use, but I think most people there will use Visual Studio since that's Microsoft's own IDE.

 

What hardware?

Will vary from developer to developer. I am pretty sure Microsoft has more than one computer.

 

 

 

Windows is not a single program developed by a single person. It is a collection of lots of smaller programs which work together, and those smaller programs are developed by different people.

[Stuff_]

Massive job to build an OS. 

Read this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

 

It's about the engineering and SD process towards OS/360. I think brooks said that they had 6 feet worth of documentation, or something like that.

[GoodBytes]

Usually an OS core is made fully or in part in assembly code. Then the rest in C/C++. This can be done within any other OS.

They probably use gcc to compile the core of the OS, and Visual Studio for the rest.

The hardware they use depends on the target system. ARM based system, for Windows 10 Mobile, and x86-64 for Windows 10 64-bit/32-bit.

The process is the same as for Linux (well Linux doesn't use Visual Studio, of course), but you'll find better documentation on Linux, as Microsoft doesn't really provide this information. Look into how Linux is made, and you'll have your answer in greater details, as the whole thing is open source. Keep in mind, I said Linux, not Ubuntu or a Linux distro. In this case I am saying "Linux" as the actual Linux kernel.

[brandishwar]

Amending what @GoodBytes said, you can find resources online that will show you how an OS is developed, and how to write your own. If you know how to write software, it should be something you can understand -- although you might still need a couple other references handy since you'll probably encounter concepts you've never seen before. If you've never touched a line of code in your life, or if your programming experience doesn't extend far beyond scripting languages (Perl, Python, PHP, and the like), it'll probably go way over your head.

[Guest]

If i had to guess maybe some sort of linux type os, but idk

Doubt it, probably of a lot of assembly hard coding and registry.