Inspired by the January cover of Popular Electronics magazine, friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft – sometimes Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software – to develop software for ...

Released in 1985, Microsoft Windows 1.0 faced a long uphill battle to market dominance. In the time when Reagan was starting his second term, the Soviet Union still had a strong grasp on the Iron ...

On this day in 1985, Microsoft unveiled its leap into the graphical user interface world with Windows 1.0, a piece of software that would change the personal computing world forever. Well, almost. As ...

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 ...

Fans of Microsoft’s long-standing Paint program are suddenly feeling very blue. The company recently announced that Microsoft Paint is on a list of features that are set to be “removed and ...

It’s one of the simplest applications Microsoft produces and has changed little since it was introduced in 1985. It’s as rudimentary as it gets. But that could be the point: A promise of AI is ...

It’s one of the simplest applications Microsoft produces and has changed little since it was introduced in 1985. It’s as rudimentary as it gets. But that could be the point: A promise of AI is ...

It’s one of the simplest applications Microsoft produces and has changed little since it was introduced in 1985. It’s as rudimentary as it gets. But that could be the point: A promise of AI is ...