Microsoft Windows turns 40 this week, marking the anniversary of one of the most influential technologies in modern history. From the launch of Windows 1.0 in 1985 to the global breakthrough of ...

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.

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 ...