On November 20, 1985, over two years after it was first announced by Microsoft, the company finally released Windows 1.01. It was Microsoft's first attempt at a GUI PC operating system. Ten days ago, ...

Windows 1.01 was released by Microsoft 40 years ago. It was the software company’s first commercially released WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointer)-driven shell, laying the foundations for the ...

It’s the end of the line for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. These older versions of Windows (plus Windows RT) stop receiving all security updates today, over a decade after their original releases.

Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the original IBM VGA standard through super VGA and then so-called “Windows ...

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

Pour one out for Windows 7, the decade-old operating system that today reached the end of the security line. Some three years after Microsoft called time on mainstream support of Windows 7, the ...

This week Microsoft has confirmed that the extended support for its old Windows 7 and Windows 8 .1 operating systems has now come to an end. Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 7 three ...