As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) announced its 'Windows 10' operating system on Tuesday to replace the largely unpopular Windows 8, skipping a number to mark a leap toward unifying ...

Microsoft has released a new video teasing 'Windows 2030 Vision'. This is the first video in a series to be released in the coming days. It shows major changes to the Windows operating system over the ...

It's been more than a year since I last wrote about Microsoft's skunkworks "Midori" operating system project. But a new blog series from one of the project's participants rekindled my interest in the ...

The news that Microsoft is ending support for its widely-used Windows 10 operating system has been a topic of conversation for a while now. While many have embraced the shift to Windows 11, others are ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

SUN VALLEY, Idaho - Google Inc. is working on a new operating system for inexpensive computers in a daring attempt to wrest away Microsoft Corp.'s long-running control over people's computing ...

Reports say that Microsoft will abandon the Windows 8 Start screen interface for traditional computers in the next version of Windows, code-named Threshold. That’s a pretty drastic step. Does it mean ...

Microsoft has urged UK PC vendors not to give customers the opportunity to buy a PC without a pre-installed operating system. Supplying base systems, or 'naked PCs', is a missed opportunity, according ...