Microsoft last week released the Windows Compatibility Module 1.0.0 for PowerShell Core 6, allowing PowerShell Core 6 users to access modules that Microsoft hasn't yet added natively to the PowerShell ...

Do you remember Windows 1.0? Chances are, your answer is “no.” When Microsoft released the very first version of Windows nearly 25 years ago, on Nov. 20, 1985, it was late to the game and little used.

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 released its first version of the Windows operating system on this day, November 20, thirty years ago. On this occasion we present 30 interesting trivia facts about the OS... >> The ...

Depending on how you count them, there have been 15 major versions of Windows, with Microsoft's inconsistent naming scheme resulting in the current version of Windows being Windows 11—go figure. A lot ...

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 ...

November 10, 1983: Microsoft tells the world about an upcoming product called Windows that will bring the graphical user interface to IBM PCs. Although Microsoft’s announcement about the new operating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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