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 ...

Top 5 things you didn’t know about Windows 1.0 Your email has been sent Windows still has more than 75% of the market on the desktop, but that wasn’t inevitable ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Microsoft is up to something, and it's doubling down on the ...

Growing up using a PC that ran on Windows 3.1, I don't think it ever occurred to me that there was a Windows 2.1. Or 1.0. That was just Windows, until Windows 95 came around a few years later. But ...