Tom's Hardware on MSN

Windows 1.01 was launched 40 years ago, but it didn't start well — Microsoft's graphical OS adventures were uncompetitive at launch

Running atop of DOS, a trait that would continue for several revisions, 1985’s Windows 1.01 had the incredibly ...

Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player

Video playback on old computers was a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. If you opened up the ol' Windows Media player back in ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I finally turned Linux into the perfect OS for a 2-in-1 PC, and it's even better than Windows

Some time ago, I noted that despite multiple attempts with different Linux distros, Windows 11 remained the best experience ...
The Escapist

Windows 1.0 turns 40: Time is a flat circle as Xbox and Microsoft feel as if they’re back in 1985

Time to flip open those Microsoft Windows history books, because this might be one of the only mentions of "OS/2" on this ...

Microsoft Windows hits 40 years old: A visual walk down memory lane

Windows went on sale 40 years ago. Here's the whole history of the operating system, from Windows 1 to 11 and everything in between.

Apple's 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should've stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick 'almost too crazy to be …

The thrust of the problem is that while running through its boot code in MAME, the Classic 2 would perform one instruction ...