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 ...

In another example of "everything old is new again," you can now recapture that old-school Microsoft feeling without even a single floppy disk drive. The year was 1980-something. One afternoon, a ...

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 ...

Either Microsoft is gearing up for a very odd promotional effort or somebody on the Windows team has hijacked a functioning time machine. Yesterday, the company posted a video boasting an "all-new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Microsoft is up to something, and it's doubling down on 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 ...