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 free for you to download and play with—on Windows, of ...

After a year of building on Windows Terminal previews, Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its new open-source terminal application. Microsoft announced Windows Terminal at Build 2019 and now, at ...

Time to flip open those Microsoft Windows history books, because this might be one of the only mentions of "OS/2" on this ...

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 ...

On Thursday, PC owners got a first look at the future of Windows. Microsoft hosted an event Thursday detailing what's next for Windows 11, the operating system that has helped power personal computers ...

After nearly four decades, an ancient secret buried deep in Windows 1.0 has been discovered by an intrepid digital archeologist. It’s a simple Easter egg, but one which was most likely impossible to ...

The full gold version of Skype for Windows Phone handsets has been posted to Microsoft's mobile app store, with new features and more languages than in the beta edition. The free app, released on the ...

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Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Mac operating systems have inspired truly prodigious amounts of adulation and horror on the part of computer users for about three decades now. Those of us who love ...

Microsoft’s Windows operating system was first introduced in 1985. A lot has changed since then, and when we try to look back, we come across a few fond remembrances. Called Windows Throwback theme, ...

Microsoft today has published a notice headlined "TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will be disabled in future Windows OSes" to remind users about the upcoming deprecation of TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol ...