In another example of "everything old is new again," you can now recapture that old-school Microsoft feeling without even a single floppy disk drive. The year was 1980-something. One afternoon, a ...

The release of Windows 8 might be in full swing, but wouldn't it be nice to reminisce about simpler times? It turns out, today is the 27th birthday of Windows 1.0. That's right: the first ever version ...

Lets see OSx do that. Between upgrade installs and Migration Assistant (to move from PowerPC OSX to Intel OSX, where you obviously can't just do an upgrade install), it's quite possible to go from OSX ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. When Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, it's a big deal. But on Monday, the ...

On November 20, 1985, Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0, a then new operating system. Development took two years after the Windows announcement in 1983, leading skeptics to call it “vaporware.” See EDN‘s ...

November 10, 1983: Microsoft tells the world about an upcoming product called Windows that will bring the graphical user interface to IBM PCs. Although Microsoft’s announcement about the new operating ...