Windows 1.0 officially released to the public 40 years ago today (November 20), and despite its age, still has some common similarities with what users can expect from the operating system today.

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...

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 ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

Windows continues to be the most widely used operating system in the world, powering over a billion devices from personal laptops and desktops to workstations and enterprise machines. It is the ...

Microsoft has been releasing versions of Windows for over three decades. Which means, at some point, every single one of us became an unpaid beta tester. This is not a ranking of the best versions of ...

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code ...