As we learn more about Windows 11, let's take a look back and how the operating system has changed. Windows 1.0. Release date: November 1985 Key features: Microsoft moves away from MS-DOS with its ...

Windows 1.0 stood the test of time and Microsoft offered supported for its debut outing for 16 years – the most for any version of the OS that has ever seen a release.

Windows 2000 was designed for client and server computers within businesses. Based on Windows NT, it was designed to be secure with new file protection, a DLL cache, and hardware plug and play.

But if Windows 8 fails, there will still be a huge number of computers waiting for the next version of the now-familiar operating system. Unless you believe that the PC itself will make way for ...

Windows 1.0 wasn't exactly a huge win — even with Microsoft Paint helping out. ... given that computers running Windows operating systems now make up about 90% of the market.

It’s not a stretch to say that Microsoft’s Windows is one of the most ubiquitous and well-known pieces of software the world has ever seen. Windows 1.0 was released on November 20th, 1985 ...

Microsoft's Twitter account adopted a Bill and Ted persona yesterday to announce Windows 1.0 from 1985. The company hasn't explained what it's planning but told a fan to "just take a chill pill ...

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 ...