Like Windows 8, the original Windows attempted to simplify computing without jettisoning legacy applications. Where Windows 8 has the familiar desktop waiting beneath its Metro UI, Windows 1.0 ran ...

According to self-styled Windows archeologist Lucas Brooks, there’s a short list of Windows development team members encrypted into a bitmap file in the original Windows 1.0 release. Subsequent ...

It was also the last rooted in Microsoft's original MS-DOS system. Key features: Microsoft had another hit on its hands with an operating system boasting the longest shelf life of any Windows ...

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‘s ...

Microsoft is turning 50, and nothing has defined the tech giant more than Windows. Like you, we've loved some versions of the desktop OS, and others...not so much. PC hardware is nice, but it’s ...

Five desktop apps have survived the chopping block since the release of Windows 1.0 in 1985 until the present day. Bill Gates (left) with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pictured inside their ...

These images are to be used as desktop wallpaper only, reads a description on Microsoft page. If you find it hard to resist the acute nostalgia of the old days, download Windows 1.0 theme for ...