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Microsoft Windows (Windows for short) is a series of Operating systems produced by Microsoft. It is used globally on personal computers and it seems to be the most populist operating system in the world.

There has been many versions of Windows, such as Windows 98 (not to be confused with the PC-98), Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Windows 7 is their latest edition with Windows 8 in development and will be released in two years.

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil was the first Touhou game developed for this platform, which was able to play on the 98, SE, ME, 2000 and the XP. Shuusou Gyoku was technically the first game for this platform, but it wasn't directly created by ZUN. All the games from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (Touhou 6) all the way to Ten Desires (Touhou 13) was made entirely for this platform. They are distinguished from "the PC-98 games" (from Touhou 1 to 5) for Team Shanghai Alice having been branched off from Amusement Makers.

Games for this platform

Touhou Project

Other Games

Additional Information

Name and Concept

  • "Microsoft Windows" in Japanese is マイクロソフト ウィンドウズ (ro. Maikurosofuto u~indouzu). For "Windows" it is ウィンドウズ (U~indouzu). It is in katakana since it came from America.
  • This was a fresh start for ZUN as he never had to use 16-bit color graphics anymore, as he didn't like it, and that he was able to use better graphics and music.

Characters

  • Windows characters are seen seperated from the PC-98 characters (Excluding the ones that returned). All of ZUN's print works of the Touhou world include all the characters re/appearing in the Windows series at least once showing that the Windows games have a direct connection to the literature. (The recent characters from Ten Desires have yet to appear but this is presumably only due to the game being recently released as a demo.)
  • Reimu, Marisa, Alice, Yuuka are among the few to return to the Windows series.
    • The rest of the PC-98 characters do not appear in ZUN's works from EOSD and beyond. It's as if they never existed in the series.

Trivia

Fandom

  • Among the fan community, the term "the Windows games" refers specifically to the games shown above.