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Microsoft is acting like it just woke up from a three-decade coma. On its Twitter and Instagram accounts, the company is "introducing the all-new Windows 1.0." Um, what? Windows 1.0 debuted nearly 34 ...

Windows through the ages: the history of the world's most popular OS Microsoft recently announced plans to strip the Windows interface to its basics -- flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and ...

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 and ...

Windows 3.0 arrived in 1990, offering a much refined interface making use of 16 colors, better resource management, and ...

Top 5 things you didn’t know about Windows 1.0 Your email has been sent Windows still has more than 75% of the market on the desktop, but that wasn’t inevitable ...

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, ...

I may maintain that the fact that Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses in six months doesn’t mean much. But that doesn’t mean that Windows sales figures aren’t interesting. In fact, ...

Stranger Things 3 debuted last week on Netflix, and in advance of the premiere, Microsoft began teasing something related to Windows 1.0. If those two things seem unconnected, well, Microsoft has ...