and you may recall a time when Windows 3.1 ruled the Earth. Twenty-five years ago this month, Microsoft released version 3.1 of its MS-DOS graphical-shell-turned-operating-system. Windows 3.1 ...

At its Ignite conference last week, a Microsoft developer evangelist, Jerry Nixon, was quoted as saying, "Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of ...

That’s where the fun lies. I’ve ranked every major consumer version of Windows, from worst to best. As Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary, see if you agree with what I’ve picked.

Microsoft looked at the enormous success of Apple's combined software and hardware businesses, specifically the App Store, and said "We want that." And so was born the worst version of Windows ...

Windows was not Microsoft’s first OS. In fact, before Windows ever came along, PCs were run by another OS known as MS-DOS. Unlike even the first version of Windows, navigating your PC with MS ...

If you have any interest in retro-computing, you know it can be difficult to round up the last official bug fixes and updates available for early Internet-era versions of Windows like 95, 98, and ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft ... on Windows 3.1, alongside managing the memory segmentation architecture on 16-bit versions ...

Windows 3.1 was originally launched in 1992, and Microsoft ended support for it on December 31, 2001, except for the embedded version, which was officially retired in 2008. Tom’s Hardware ...