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 ...

Ever wondered what owning a computer in the 1980s was like? Outside of nostalgia, it wasn’t the best. Until 1984, unless you were in some kind of strange lab or university, nearly everything was ...

What comes to mind when you look back at the history of Windows? Is it the iconic logos, the ever-changing Start menus, or maybe the introduction of Live Tiles? The story of Microsoft’s flagship ...

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 Manager." The title was ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...

What just happened? Almost four decades on, a hidden feature of Windows 1.0 has been found for the first time. It's an Easter egg saying "congrats!" that contains the names of the original Windows ...

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 ...

Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots up an old computer so he can play around with Windows 95 again. Baca has made a hobby of assembling old PCs with new-in-box vintage parts, ...