Today is a big birthday for Microsoft Windows, as the iconic operating system turns 30. While there have been numerous incarnations of Windows over the years -- we are currently on Windows 10 -- and ...

On November 20, 1985, Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0, a then new operating system. Development took two years after the Windows announcement in 1983, leading skeptics to call it “vaporware.” See EDN‘s ...

Next week, Microsoft will release the first public beta of Windows 8. It will be the biggest change to how Windows looks and feels since the product was invented in 1985. But don't take our word for ...

I may maintain that the fact that Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses in six months doesn’t mean much. But that doesn’t mean that Windows sales figures aren’t interesting. In fact, ...