Without Microsoft, the world of modern computer technology would not be the same as we know it. Next year, Microsoft turns 50 years old, so it’s worth looking back at the megacorporation’s significant ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Decades before Windows 8.1 and Office 365 hit the market, ...

"Windows File Manager" is a GUI provided for Windows 3.0, and it became the source of "Windows Explorer" later used from Windows 95. Until then, the file copy and deletion etc was done by MS-DOS ...

Today Friday November 20 - 2015 it has been 30 years ever since Microsoft released the very first version of Windows. The follow-up to MS-DOS was a game-changer in the market, a development that ...

Thirty years ago, on November 20, 1985, Microsoft released version 1.0 of its new graphical shell called Windows. Much has been written about how Microsoft copied the Macintosh and Lisa, and how in ...