Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

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 ...

Depending on how you count them, there have been 15 major versions of Windows, with Microsoft's inconsistent naming scheme resulting in the current version of Windows being Windows 11—go figure. A lot ...

Windows has come a long way over the last 35 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Today is the 35th anniversary of the launch ...

The year was 1983. Microsoft was slowly becoming a well-known tech company in the PC space. Two years before, in 1981, Its MS-DOS operating system would be installed in the first IBM PC. It launched ...

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 Manager." The title was ...

Windows 1.0 may be old, but it still has charm. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Hop in your time machine and rewind the clock to the days of Windows 1.0. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A tech-minded Twitter ...