Today marks the 30th anniversary of arguably the single most important release in the history of the personal computer – Windows 1.0. As Windows nears its fourth decade, it does so at a pivotal ...

Microsoft is officially retiring the iconic blue crash screen that has haunted PC users since the days of Windows 1.0. In its ...

The issues that stymied Windows 1.0 when Microsoft was young won’t necessarily block today’s operating system from success, not when every major computer company is churning out compatible ...

Tom Merritt highlights five things you may not have known about the first Windows operating system. Windows still has more than 75% of the market on the desktop, but that wasn’t inevitable.

Just for kicks, here's one other "fully functional" version of Windows 95 that may provide you with a frustratingly familiar sight.OS X 10.2: The classic Mac OS is retired. VirtualDesktop.org also ...

As we learn more about Windows 11, let's take a look back and how the operating system has changed. Windows 1.0. Release date: November 1985 Key features: Microsoft moves away from MS-DOS with its ...

Microsoft is killing Windows' infamous Blue Screen of Death, but that doesn't mean the end of unexpected errors.

Windows 1.0’s Been Hiding A Secret For 37 Years, And Someone Finally Found It ... As spotted by PC Gamer, Lucas Brooks is a big fan of Microsoft’s graphical operating system, Windows.

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 ...

On November 20, 1985, Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0, a then new operating system. Development took two years after the Windows announcement in 1983, leading skeptics to call it “vaporware.”See EDN‘s ...

Playing with Windows 1.0 in your web browser. Obviously, Windows 1.0 is a little ancient. In fact, your old-and-busted dumb phone could probably handle its system requirements: 256Kb of memory, a ...