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Microsoft Windows (or simply Windows) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

It consists of several families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture.

Active Windows families include Windows NT, Windows Embedded and Windows Phone; these may encompass subfamilies, e.g. Windows Embedded Compact (Windows CE) or Windows Server.

Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x; Windows 10 Mobile is an active product, unrelated to the defunct family Windows Mobile.

Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly Minesweeper) is a minesweeper computer game created by Curt Johnson, originally for OS/2, and ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time.

First officially released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 in 1990, it was included in the standard install of Windows 3.1 in 1992, replacing Reversi from Windows 3.0.

Microsoft Minesweeper has been included in all subsequent Windows releases until Windows 8.

An updated version included in Windows Vista and Windows 7 was developed by Oberon Media.

In Windows 8 and later the game is not included, but a free equivalent developed by Arkadium it is available from the Windows Store.

FreeCell is a solitaire-based card game played with a 52-card standard deck.

It is fundamentally different from most solitaire games in that very few hands are unsolvable.

Although software implementations vary, most versions label the hands with a number (derived from the random number seed used to generate the hand).

Patience, or solitaire as it is known in the US and Canada, is a genre of card games that can be played by a single player.

Patience games can also be played in a head-to-head fashion with the winner selected by a scoring scheme.

Klondike is a patience game (solitaire card game).

In the U.S. and Canada, Klondike is known as solitaire, being one of the better known of the family of patience games.

The game rose to fame in the late 19th century, being named "Klondike" after the Canadian region where a gold rush happened.

It is rumored that the game was either created or popularized by the prospectors in Klondike.