In another example of "everything old is new again," you can now recapture that old-school Microsoft feeling without even a single floppy disk drive. The year was 1980-something. One afternoon, a ...

Windows 1.0 did set the stage for Microsoft to take the OS market by storm, however, and it introduced some iconic features that you might still be using t ...

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 ...

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple free tool that allows you to install all or part of Microsoft's entire Web Platform and keep each individual component up-to-date. Web PI downloads an ...

First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project that would eventually become Windows actually started life under a far wonkier name: "Interface ...