Time to flip open those Microsoft Windows history books, because this might be one of the only mentions of "OS/2" on this ...

The first version of Microsoft Windows will be knocking on the door of its third decade Thursday when it turns the ripe old age of 29 — well past retirement in software years, given that Microsoft ...

Windows 1.0 officially released to the public 40 years ago today (November 20), and despite its age, still has some common ...

On Thursday, PC owners got a first look at the future of Windows. Microsoft hosted an event Thursday detailing what's next for Windows 11, the operating system that has helped power personal computers ...

First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project that would eventually become Windows actually started life under a far wonkier name: "Interface ...

Top 5 things you didn’t know about Windows 1.0 Your email has been sent Windows still has more than 75% of the market on the desktop, but that wasn’t inevitable ...

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Microsoft used to release a new version of Windows every few years, which is how we got from Windows 1.0 in 1987 to Windows 8.1 in 2014. But with the launch of Windows 10 in 2015, Microsoft started ...