Windows 1.0 didn't exactly blow the industry away, but it laid the groundwork for Microsoft's future success.

Gray windows and simple graphics make CivIdle a 4X strategy game you could get away with playing on office time, back in 2001 anyway.

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 ...

November 10, 1983: Microsoft tells the world about an upcoming product called Windows that will bring the graphical user interface to IBM PCs. Although Microsoft’s announcement about the new operating ...