Imagine Microsoft helping build Windows’ replacement before Windows had even finished becoming important.

Just over 15 years ago—on June 1st, 2011—Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 and released it to the world. As you can read in our visual history of Windows, the operating system wasn’t well-received by users ...

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. On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft ...

Microsoft released Windows NT 3.1, its first true 32-bit operating system, in 1993. The "New Technology" platform initially ...