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Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems. The first operating system in the 9x family, it is the successor to Windows x, and was released to manufacturing on August 15, , and generally to retail on August 24, ^[4][5] Windows 95 merged Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows products, and featured significant improvements over its predecessor, most notably in the graphical user interface (GUI) and in its simplified "plug-and-play" features. There were also major changes made to the core components of the operating system, such as moving from a mainly cooperatively multitaskedbit architecture to a bitpreemptive multitasking architecture, at least when running only bit protected mode applications.

Accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign,^[1] Windows 95 introduced numerous functions and features that were featured in later Windows versions, such as the taskbar, notification area, and the "Start" button.

Three years after its introduction, Windows 95 was followed by Windows Microsoft ended extended support for Windows 95 on December 31,

Development[edit]

The initial design and planning of Windows 95 can be traced back to around March ,^[6][7][8] just around the time before the release of Windows At this time, Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT were still in development and Microsoft's plan for the future was focused on Cairo. Cairo would be Microsoft's next-generation operating system based on Windows NT, featuring a new user interface and an object-based file system, but it was not planned to be shipped before However, Cairo would partially ship in late July in the form of Windows NT , but without the object-based file system, which would later evolve into WinFS.

Simultaneously with Windows 's release, IBM started shipping OS/2 Microsoft realized they were in need of an updated version of Windows that could support bit applications and preemptive multitasking, but could still run on low-end hardware (Windows NT did not). So the development of Windows "Chicago" was started and, as it was planned for a late release, became known as Windows 93 which was also known as Windows Initially, the decision was made not to include a new user interface, as this was planned for Cairo, and only focus on making installation, configuration, and networking easier. Windows 93 would ship together with MS-DOS , offering a more integrated experience to the user and making it pointless for other companies to create DOS clones. MS-DOS was in development at that time under the code name "Jaguar" and could optionally run on top of a Windows based bit protected-mode kernel called "Cougar" in order to better compete with DR-DOS. The first version of Chicago's feature specification was finished on September 30, Cougar was to become Chicago's kernel.

Beta[edit]

Prior to Windows 95's official release, users in the United States and United Kingdom had an opportunity to participate in the Windows 95 Preview Program.^[9] For US$/£, users would receive several inch floppy disks that would be used to install Windows 95 either as an upgrade from Windows x or as a fresh installation. Participants were also given a free preview of The Microsoft Network (MSN), the online service that Microsoft launched with Windows During the preview period, Microsoft established various electronic distribution points for promotional and technical documentation on Chicago,^[10] including a detailed document for media reviewers describing the new system highlights.^[10][11] The preview versions expired in November , after which the user would have to purchase their own copy of the final version of Windows

Architecture[edit]

Windows 95 was designed to be maximally compatible with existing MS-DOS and bit Windows programs and device drivers while offering a more stable and better performing system.^[12][13] The Windows 95 architecture is an evolution of Windows for Workgroups' enhanced mode. The lowest level of the operating system consists of a large number of virtual device drivers (VxDs) running in bit protected mode and one or more virtual DOS machines running in virtual mode. The virtual device drivers are responsible for handling physical devices (such as video and network cards), emulating virtual devices used by the virtual machines or providing various system services. The three most important virtual device drivers are:

Virtual Machine Manager (VMMVXD)

Responsible for memory management, event handling, interrupt handling, loading and initializing virtual device drivers, creating new virtual machines and threadscheduling.^[14]

Configuration Manager (CONFIGMG)

Responsible for implementing Plug and Play functionality; monitoring hardware configuration changes; detecting devices using bus enumerators; and allocating I/O ports, IRQs, DMA channels and memory in a conflict-free fashion.^[15]

Installable File System Manager (Input/Output Subsystem)

Coordinates access to supported file systems. Windows 95 initially shipped with support for FAT12, FAT16, the VFAT extension, ISO (CDFS), Joliet and network redirectors, with later releases supporting FAT^[16]

Access requests to physical media are sent to Input/Output Supervisor, a component responsible for scheduling the requests. Each physical media has its own device driver: access to the disk is performed by a port driver, while access to a SCSI device is handled by a miniport driver working atop the SCSI layer. Port and miniport drivers perform I/O operations in bit protected mode, bypassing MS-DOS and BIOS, giving a significant performance improvement. In case there is no native Windows driver for a certain storage device, or if a device is forced to run in compatibility mode, the Real Mode Mapper can access it through MS-DOS.^[17]

bit Windows programs are assigned their own memory segments, which can be adjusted to any desired size. Memory area outside the segment cannot be accessed by a program. If a program crashes, nothing else is harmed. Before this, programs used fixed non-exclusive 64&#;KB segments. While the 64&#;KB size was a serious handicap in DOS and Windows 3.x, lack of guarantee of exclusiveness was the cause of stability issues because programs sometimes overwrote each other's segments. A crashing Windows 3.x program could knock out surrounding processes.

The Win32 API is implemented by three modules, each consisting of a bit and a bit component:

Kernel

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Dependence on MS-DOS[edit]

To end-users, MS-DOS appears as an underlying component of Windows For example, it is possible to prevent the loading of the graphical user interface and boot the system into a real-mode MS-DOS environment. This was done by inserting manicapital.com in the manicapital.com file or changing the BootGUI variable in the manicapital.com file to 0. This sparked debate amongst users and professionals regarding the extent to which Windows 95 is an operating system or merely a graphical shell running on top of MS-DOS.^[18][19][17]

When the graphical user interface is started, the virtual machine manager takes over the filesystem-related and disk-related functionality. MS-DOS itself is demoted to a compatibility layer for bit device drivers.^[20] This contrasts with earlier versions of Windows which rely on MS-DOS to perform file and disk access (Windows for Workgroups could also largely bypass MS-DOS when bit file access and bit disk access were enabled). Keeping MS-DOS in memory allows Windows 95 to use DOS device drivers when suitable Windows drivers are unavailable. Windows 95 is capable of using all bit Windows 3.x drivers.

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On startup, the MS-DOS component in Windows 95 responds to a pressed key by temporarily pausing the default boot process and presenting the DOS boot options menu, allowing the user to continue starting Windows normally, start Windows in safe mode or exit to the DOS prompt.^[18] As in previous versions of MS-DOS, there is no bit support and DOS drivers must be loaded for mice and other hardware.

As a consequence of being DOS-based, Windows 95 has to keep internal DOS data structures synchronized with those of Windows When starting a program, even a native bit Windows program, MS-DOS momentarily executes to create a data structure known as the Program Segment Prefix. It is even possible for MS-DOS to run out of conventional memory while doing so, preventing the program from launching.^[18] Windows 3.x allocated fixed segments in conventional memory first. Since the segments were allocated as fixed, Windows could not move them, which would prevent any more programs from launching.

Microsoft partially removed support for File Control Blocks (an API hold-over of DOS 1.x and CP/M) in Windows 95 OSR2 (OEM Service Release 2). FCB functions can read FAT32 volumes, but not write to them.

User interface[edit]

Windows 95 introduced a redesigned shell based around a desktop metaphor; File shortcuts (also known as shell links) were introduced ^[21] and the desktop was re-purposed to hold shortcuts to applications, files and folders, reminiscent of Mac OS.

In Windows the desktop was used to display icons of running applications. In Windows 95, the currently running applications were displayed as buttons on a taskbar across the bottom of the screen.^[22] The taskbar also contained a notification area used to display icons for background applications, a volume control and the current time.^[23]

The Start menu, invoked by clicking the "Start" button on the taskbar or by pressing the Windows key, was introduced as an additional means of launching applications or opening documents. While maintaining the program groups used by its predecessor Program Manager, it also displayed applications within cascading sub-menus.^[24]

The previous File Manager program was replaced by Windows Explorer and the Explorer-based Control Panel and several other special folders were added such as My Computer, Dial Up Networking, Recycle Bin, Network Neighborhood, My Documents, Recent documents, Fonts, Printers, and My Briefcase among others. AutoRun was introduced for CD drives.

The user interface looked dramatically different from prior versions of Windows, but its design language did not have a special name like Metro or Aqua or Material Design. Internally it was called "the new shell" and later simply "the shell".^[25] The subproject within Microsoft to develop the new shell was internally known as "Stimpy".^[26]

In , Microsoft designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Brian Eno to compose music for the Windows 95 project.^[27] The result was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, The Microsoft Sound and it was first released as a startup sound in May on Windows 95 May Test Release build ^[28]

When released for Windows 95 and Windows NT , Internet Explorer 4 came with an optional Windows Desktop Update, which modified the shell to provide several additional updates to Windows Explorer, including a Quick Launch toolbar, and new features integrated with Internet Explorer, such as Active Desktop (which allowed Internet content to be displayed directly on the desktop).

Some of the user interface elements introduced in Windows 95, such as the desktop, taskbar, Start menu and Windows Explorer file manager, remained fundamentally unchanged on future versions of Windows.

Technical improvements[edit]

Windows 95 included support for character mixed-case long filenames^[29] and preemptively multitasked protected-mode bit applications. bit processes were still co-operatively multitasked.

Plug and Play[edit]

Windows 95 tried to automate device detection and configuration as much as possible, but could still fall back to manual settings if necessary. During the initial install process of Windows 95, it would attempt to automatically detect all devices installed in the system.

Windows 95 also introduced the Device Manager to clearly indicate which devices were working optimally with correct drivers and configuration, and to allow the user to override automatic Plug and Play-based driver installation with manual options or give a choice of several semi-automatic configurations to try to free up resources for devices that still needed manual configuration.

Long file names[edit]

bit File Access is necessary for the long file names feature introduced with Windows 95 through the use of the VFAT file system extension. It is available to both Windows programs and MS-DOS programs started from Windows (they have to be adapted slightly, since accessing long file names requires using larger pathnamebuffers and hence different system calls). Competing DOS-compatible operating systems released before Windows 95 cannot see these names. Using older versions of DOS utilities to manipulate files means that the long names are not visible and are lost if files are moved or renamed, as well as by the copy (but not the original), if the file is copied. During a Windows 95 automatic upgrade of an older Windows system, DOS and third-party disk utilities which can destroy long file names are identified and made unavailable. When Windows 95 is started in DOS mode, e.g. for running DOS programs, low-level access to disks is locked out. In case the need arises to depend on disk utilities that do not recognize long file names, such as the MS-DOS 6.x's defrag utility, a program called LFNBACK for backup and restoration of long file names is provided on the CD-ROM, specifically in its \ADMIN\APPTOOLS\LFNBACK directory.

bit[edit]

Windows 95 followed Windows for Workgroups with its lack of support for older, bit x86 processors, thus requiring an Intel (or compatible). While the OS kernel is bit, much code (especially for the user interface) remained bit for performance reasons as well as development time constraints. This had a rather detrimental effect on system stability and led to frequent application crashes.

The introduction of bit file access in Windows for Workgroups meant that bit real mode MS-DOS is not used for managing the files while Windows is running, and the earlier introduction of the bit disk access means that the PC BIOS is often no longer used for managing hard disks. DOS can be used for running old-style drivers for compatibility, but Microsoft discourages using them, as this prevents proper multitasking and impairs system stability. Control Panel allows a user to see which MS-DOS components are used by the system; optimal performance is achieved when they are bypassed. The Windows kernel uses MS-DOS style real-mode drivers in Safe Mode, which exists to allow a user to fix problems relating to loading native, protected-mode drivers.

Core improvements in OEM Service Releases[edit]

OEM Service Releases of Windows 95 introduced support for the first time in Windows for several core new technologies which were not included in the original release of Windows These include the Internet Explorer web browser, DriveSpace compression, DirectX, FAT32 file system support, UltraDMA mode for disk drives, Universal Serial Bus, IEEE (FireWire), and Accelerated Graphics Port.

Accessibility features[edit]

Windows 95 introduced computer accessibility features like Sticky keys, FilterKeys, ToggleKeys, Mouse keys. Microsoft Active Accessibility API was introduced as an add-on for Windows

System requirements[edit]

Official system requirements were an Intel DX CPU of any speed, 4&#;MB of system RAM and 50–55&#;MB of hard disk space depending on features selected. These minimal claims were made in order to maximize the available market of Windows migrations. This configuration would rely heavily on virtual memory and was only optimal for productive use on single-tasking dedicated workstations.^[30] It was possible to run Windows 95 on a SX, but this led to even less acceptable performance due to its bit external data bus. To achieve optimal performance, Microsoft recommended an Intel or compatible CPU with at least 8&#;MB of RAM.^[31]

Windows 95 may fail to boot on computers with more than approximately &#;MB of memory.^[32][33][34] In such a case, reducing the file cache size or the size of video memory can help.^[32] The theoretical maximum according to Microsoft is 2 GB.^[35]

Most copies of Windows 95 were on CD-ROM, but a floppy version could also be had for older machines. The retail floppy disk version of Windows 95 came on 13 DMF formatted floppy disks, while OSR doubled the floppy count to Both versions exclude additional software that the CD-ROM version might have featured. Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 was also available on floppy disks. DMF was a special sector format that Microsoft used to store &#;MB on floppy disks rather than the usual &#;MB.

Upgradeability[edit]

Windows 95 was superseded by Windows 98 and could still be directly upgraded by either Windows Professional^[36] or Windows Me. Office is the last version of Microsoft Office to be compatible with Windows Similarly, Windows Media Player , released in May , and DirectX a, released in February , are the last versions of Windows Media Player and DirectX available for Windows 95, respectively.

Internet Explorer[edit]

Windows 95 originally shipped without Internet Explorer, and the default network installation did not install TCP/IP, the network protocol used on the Internet. At the release date of Windows 95, Internet Explorer was available,^[37] but only in the Plus! add-on pack for Windows 95, which was a separate product. The Plus! Pack did not reach as many retail consumers as the operating system itself (it was mainly advertised for its non-Internet-related add-ons such as themes and better disk compression) but was usually included in pre-installed (OEM) sales, and at the time of Windows 95's release, the web was being browsed mainly with a variety of early web browsers such as NCSA Mosaic and Netscape Navigator (promoted by products such as IBox).

Windows 95 OEM Service Release 1 was the first release of Windows to include Internet Explorer (version ) with the OS. While there was no uninstaller, it could be deleted easily if desired. OEM Service Release 2 included Internet Explorer 3. The installation of Internet Explorer 4 on Windows 95 (or the OSR version preinstalled on a computer) gave Windows 95 Active Desktop and browser integration into Windows Explorer, known as the Windows Desktop Update. The CD version of the last release of Windows 95, OEM Service Release (Version C), includes Internet Explorer 4, and installs it after Windows 95's initial setup and first boot are complete.

While only the 4.x series of the browser contained the option to install the Windows Desktop Update features, the subsequent 5.x version had the option hidden. Editing the installer's configuration file located in a temporary folder would make the feature available in the installer. Alternatively, the user could install IE4 with the desktop update before installing a newer version of Internet Explorer. The last version of Internet Explorer supported on Windows 95 is Internet Explorer , which was released in Windows 95 shipped with Microsoft's own dial-up online service called The Microsoft Network (MSN).

Release and promotion[edit]

The Windows 95 release included a commercial featuring The Rolling Stones' single "Start Me Up" (a reference to the Start button).^[38] It was widely reported that Microsoft paid the Rolling Stones between US$8 and US$14 million for the use of the song in the Windows 95 advertising campaign. However, Microsoft said that this was just a rumor spread by the band to increase their market value, and the company actually paid a fraction of that amount.^[39] A minute promotional video, labeled a "cyber sitcom," featuring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, was also released to showcase the features of Windows ^[40] Microsoft's US$ million advertising campaign featured stories of people waiting in line outside stores to get a copy.^[41]

In the UK, the largest computer chain PC World received a large quantity of point-of-sale material; many branches opened at midnight to sell the first copies of the product. Copies of The Times were available for free, and Microsoft paid for million issues (twice the daily circulation at the time).^[42]

In the United States, the Empire State Building in New York City was lit to match the colors of the Windows logo.^[4] In Canada, a &#;m (&#;ft) banner was hung down the side of the CN Tower in Toronto.^[43]

The release included a number of "Fun Stuff" items on the CD, including music videos of Edie Brickell's "Good Times"^[44] and Weezer's "Buddy Holly," a trailer for the film Rob Roy and the computer game Hover!^[45]

Sales were strong, with one million copies shipped worldwide in just four days.^[46] According to International Data Corporation, by the end of , Windows 95 was the most used desktop OS with % of the marketshare, with its successor Windows 98 coming in second at %. Windows 95 also still sold more non-OEM copies to large customers in the month of May , which analysts attributed to large companies opting to wait for the release of Windows ^[47]

Editions[edit]

A number of Windows 95 editions have been released. Only the original release was sold as a shrink-wrapped product; later editions were provided only to computer OEMs for installation on new PCs. For this reason, these editions are known as OEM Service Releases (OSR).

Together with the introduction of Windows 95, Microsoft released the Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 pack, which contained a number of optional components for high-end multimedia PCs, including Internet Explorer, DriveSpace and additional themes.

The first service pack was made available half a year after the original release and fixed a number of small bugs.^[48]

The second service pack mainly introduced support for new hardware, most notably support for hard drives larger than 2 GB in the form of the FAT32 file system. This release was never made available to end-users directly and was only sold through OEMs with the purchase of a new PC.

A full third service pack was never released, but two smaller updates to the second were released in the form of a USB Supplement (OSR ) and the Windows Desktop Update (OSR ). Both were available as stand-alone updates and as updated disc images shipped by OEMs. OSR was notable for featuring a number of changes to the Windows Explorer, integrating it with Internet Explorer —this version of Internet Explorer looks very similar to the one featured in Windows

Legacy[edit]

On December 31, , Microsoft ended its support for Windows 95, making it an "obsolete" product per the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy.^[57]

Many features that have since become key components of the Microsoft Windows series, such as the Start menu and the taskbar, originated in Windows Neil MacDonald, a Gartner analyst, said that Windows 95 "was a quantum leap in difference in technological capability and stability." Ina Fried of CNET said that "by the time Windows 95 was finally ushered off the market in , it had become a fixture on computer desktops around the world."^[42]

Even though support for Windows 95 has ended, the software has occasionally remained in use on legacy systems for various purposes. In addition, some video game enthusiasts choose to use Windows 95 for their legacy system to play old DOS games, although some other versions of Windows such as Windows 98 can also be used for this purpose.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Software is digital through and through, and yet there's one unavoidable aspect of software installation that remains thoroughly analog: entering the registration key.

The aggravation is intentional. Unique registration keys exist only to prevent piracy. Like all piracy solutions-- short of completely server hosted applications and games, where piracy means you'd have to host your own rogue server-- it's an incomplete client-side solution. How effective is it? One vendor implemented code to detect false registration keys and phone home with some basic information such as the IP address when these false keys are entered. Here's what they found:

I have no idea how reliable this data is. The vendor is never named, and given that the title of the URL is manicapital.com, I'd expect it to be biased. But it is data, and without the registration key concept (and pervasive internet connectivity), we'd have no data whatsoever to quantify how much piracy actually exists. The BSA estimated 35% of all software was pirated in , but it is just that-- an estimate. I'll choose biased data over no data whatsoever, every time.

I don't have a problem with registration keys. You could, in fact, argue that registration key validation actually works. Microsoft recently stated that the piracy rate of Vista is half that of XP, largely due to improvements in their Windows Genuine Advantage program-- Microsoft's global registration key validation service.

As a software developer, I can empathize with Microsoft to a degree. Unless you oppose the very concept of commercial software, there has to be some kind of enforcement in place. The digital nature of software makes it both easy and impersonal for people to avoid paying (note that I did not say "steal"), which is an irresistible combination for many. Unless you provide some disincentives, that's exactly what people will do-- they'll pay nothing for your software.

Microsoft's history with piracy goes way, way back-- all the way back to the original microcomputers. Witness Bill Gates' Open Letter To Hobbyists, written in

Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,

The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.

Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?

Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written BASIC, and are writing APL and APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.

Although computers have changed radically in the last thirty years, human behavior hasn't. (Alternately, you could argue that the economics of computing and the emergence of an ad-supported software ecosystem have fundamentally changed the rules of the game since But that's a topic for another blog post.)

I accept that software registration keys are a necessary evil for commercial software, and I resign myself to manually keeping track of them, and keying them in. But why do they have to be so painful? You do realize a human being has to type this stuff in, right? Here are some things that I've seen vendors get wrong with their registration key process:

1. Using commonly mistaken characters in the key

   Quick! Is that an 'O' or an '0'? A '6' or a 'G'? An 'I' or an 'l'? A 'B' or an '8'? At least have the courtesy to scour your registration key character set of those characters that are commonly mistaken for other characters. And please print the key in a font that minimizes the chances of confusion.

2. Excessively long keys

   The most rudimentary grasp of mathematics tells us that a conservative 10 character alphanumeric registration key is good for trillion unique users. Even factoring in the pigeonhole principle, we can estimate about 14 million random registration key combinations before we have a 50 percent risk of a collision. So why, then, do software developers insist on 20+ character registration keys? It's ridiculous. Are they planning to sell licenses to every grain of sand on every beach?

3. Not separating the key into blocks

   Rather than smashing your key into one long string, make it a group of small 4 to 5 characters, separated by a delimiter. It's the same reason phone numbers are listed as and not People have an easier time handling and remembering small chunks of information.

4. Making it difficult to enter the key

   Short of providing every customer a handy USB barcode scanner, at least make the registration key entry form as user friendly as possible:

   • Let the user enter the key in any format. With dashes, without dashes, using spaces, whatever. Be flexible. Accept a variety of formats.
   • Do not provide five input boxes that require us to tab through each one to enter the key. It's death by a thousand tiny textboxes.
   • Tell me as soon as I've entered a bad value in the key. Why should I have to go back and pore over my entry to figure out which letter or number I've screwed up? You're the computer, remember? This is what you're good at.
   • Accept pasting from the clipboard. Once we've installed the software, we'll probably install it again, and nobody likes keying these annoying resgistration keys in more than once. I've seen some clever software that proactively checks the clipboard and enters the key automatically if it finds it there. (Kudos to you, Beyond Compare.)
   • Don't passively-aggressively inform me that "the key you entered appears to be valid." Is it? Or isn't it? What's the point of unique registration keys if you can't be sure? I guess paying customers can't be trusted.
5. Where's the %*@# key?

   The key is important. Without it we can't install or use the software. So why is it buried in the back of the manual, or on an easy-to-overlook interior edge of the package? Make it easy to find-- and difficult to lose. Provide multiple copies of the key in different locations, maybe even as a peelable sticker we can place somewhere useful. And if the software was delivered digitally, please keep track of our key for us. We're forgetful.

Software registration keys are a disconcerting analog hoop we force users to jump through when using commercial software. Furthermore, registration keys are often the user's first experience with our software-- and first impressions matter. If you're delivering software that relies on registration keys, give that part of the experience some consideration. Any negative feelings generated by an unnecessarily onerous registration key entry process will tend to color users' perception of your software.

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System Requirements:

• Both version for windows and Mac
• Support Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows , Windows 10
• 5 GHz processor and upgraded
• RAM should be at least 1 GB and upper
• A free space of a minimum of 3 GB for all apps
• Screen resolution must be &#; and upper
• For Mac OS it is compatible with all newest versions

How to Install a Latest Free Full Version?

1. The first step is to download the Microsoft office free trial version
2. Then uninstall the Office if you already have it in your system because it does not work with that version only
3. Turn off your system defender for a short time
4. Then download the complete setup from the link below by following the guidance
5. If the tool does not activate after the installation then see the box below and put the product keys to activate
6. Then run the Microsoft office setup again
7. After the complete installation, restart your PC or Mac for a good result
8. Turn your system security on after login
9. Verify your keys online given here in the screenshot
10. Now enjoy the Office Suite free of cost

Note: if you face any problem regarding the serial keys try any other given upper to download the setup completely.

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