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 ...

Windows 1.0 debuted nearly 34 years ago, on November 20, 1985. It consisted of a 16-bit graphical shell plopped on top of MS-DOS. Microsoft intended it to be used with a keyboard, but mouse ...

Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed 1985 is calling, and it has some lessons for Windows 8 ...

When AJAX, otherwise known as Asynchronous Javascript and XML, first became all the rage (mostly thanks to Google), Microsoft didn't waste anytime reminding AJAX-watchers that it pioneered the ...

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 releases version 1.0 of the open-source Windows Terminal application following a year of development.

Tom Merritt highlights five things you may not have known about the first Windows operating system.

Microsoft “re-released” Windows 1.0 this week as part of a partnership with that Stranger Things show I have yet to binge on Netflix. While it’s fre ...

As Microsoft unveils a new version of its Windows operating system, we take a look back at how Windows has changed over the years.