Microsoft Windows is a series of popular proprietary operating
environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use
on personal computers and servers. Microsoft first introduced an
operating environment named Windows in November, 1985, as an
add-on to MS-DOS. This was in response to Apple Computer's
computer system, the Apple Macintosh, which used a graphical
user interface (GUI). Microsoft Windows eventually came to
dominate the world personal computer market with market analysts
like IDC estimating that Windows has around 90% of the client
operating system market. All recent versions of Windows are
fully-fledged operating systems. Tools and Libraries - Curses
library - List of C Development enviroments on the Game
Programming Wiki - LibSDL, Simple DirectMedia Layer - 'Microsoft
Visual C++ Toolkit 2003' free, from Microsoft themselves.