Earlier this month, we talked about the launch of Microsoft's first web browser, Internet Explorer 1.0, back in 1995. It was a pretty bare-bones browser, but Microsoft quickly updated it with a 2.0 ...

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Windows went on sale 40 years ago. Here's the whole history of the operating system, from Windows 1 to 11 and everything in between.