Depending on how you count them, there have been 15 major versions of Windows, with Microsoft's inconsistent naming scheme resulting in the current version of Windows being Windows 11—go figure. A lot ...

Windows 1.0 officially released to the public 40 years ago today (November 20), and despite its age, still has some common similarities with what users can expect from the operating system today.

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...