Underpinned by the iconic MS-DOS command line, Windows 1.0 is notable in that it specifically required a computer mouse to ...

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 ...

Growing up using a PC that ran on Windows 3.1, I don't think it ever occurred to me that there was a Windows 2.1. Or 1.0. That was just Windows, until Windows 95 came around a few years later. But ...

Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Mac operating systems have inspired truly prodigious amounts of adulation and horror on the part of computer users for about three decades now. Those of us who love ...

After a year of building on Windows Terminal previews, Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its new open-source terminal application. Microsoft announced Windows Terminal at Build 2019 and now, at ...

Windows went on sale 40 years ago. Here's the whole history of the operating system, from Windows 1 to 11 and everything in between.

November 10, 1983: Microsoft tells the world about an upcoming product called Windows that will bring the graphical user interface to IBM PCs. Although Microsoft’s announcement about the new operating ...