As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

Microsoft has been in the computer software realm just about, as long as computers have been on the consumer market. Back in the early days of computing, before Windows, Microsoft had an operating ...

Don’t be surprised if I say that 9 out of 10 computers run some version of the Windows operating system today. However, no one could have predicted this outcome when the journey began with MS-DOS and ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

Microsoft has released a new video teasing 'Windows 2030 Vision'. This is the first video in a series to be released in the coming days. It shows major changes to the Windows operating system over the ...

Windows is probably the most consequential software ever created. It for nearly four decades, it has run the computers that we use to learn, create, defend our country, heal the sick, and look at ...

LAS VEGAS—Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates set the table for the giant Consumer Electronics Show Monday night, announcing the long-awaited commercial version of the firm's new CE operating system, ...

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 ...

Novell had the early lead in the network operating system market, but a persistent Microsoft kept hammering away until NetWare become a just a memory in many companies. If it weren’t for Novell’s Ray ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Microsoft's roadmap to the future includes side trips into casino gambling and sewing-machine design. A high-tech sewing machine Microsoft's Windows CE.Net operating system ...