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 ...

No one who used this first version was likely to have predicted that Windows would completely dominate the PC market 25 years later. Shortly after Windows 1.0 was released, Nathaniel Borenstein ...

Posey's Tips & Tricks Microsoft Resurrects Windows 1.0 (Sort Of) In another example of "everything old is new again," you can now recapture that old-school Microsoft feeling without even a single ...

The release of Windows 8 might be in full swing, but wouldn't it be nice to reminisce about simpler times? It turns out, today is the 27th birthday of Windows 1.0.