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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 1.0 wasn't exactly a huge win — even with Microsoft Paint helping out. ... Windows wasn’t the first operating system with a GUI as its primary feature.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Windows operating system was first introduced in 1985. A lot has changed since then, and when we try to look back, we come across a few fond remembrances. Called Windows Throwback ...