We all love today's cutting-edge operating systems, but there are times when it's fun to think back to yesteryear and relive ...

Even if you’re not a long-time Linux user, the terminal is still great as a way to quickly jump around your system settings ...

Initial versions of Windows worked with an earlier Microsoft operating system called MS-DOS, providing a modern graphical interface on top of DOS's traditional text-based commands.

The Archimedes ran RISC OS, a very nice graphical operating system written explicitly for the ARM architecture. RISC OS is now available for the Raspberry Pi , finally bridging the gap between ...

In July 1993, Microsoft released Windows NT, a more robust operating system built from scratch. It was meant as a complement to Windows 3.1 and allowed higher-end machines to perform more complex ...

As IBM and Microsoft’s joint operating agreement falls apart, OS/2 becomes an IBM product, and Microsoft gives its graphical operating system a different name — Windows NT.

NEWS ANALYSIS: When Apple first started selling the Macintosh, few people realized how it would change almost everything about personal computing.

With Friday's release of the touch-centric Windows 8 software, Microsoft continues more than three decades of making operating systems for personal computers. Microsoft Corp. got its start on PCs ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A traditional operating system (OS) such as Windows, macOS and Linux facilitates user ...

You probably never saw the NES as a productivity machine, but some clever developers beg to differ. Hackaday and Ars Technica note Inkbox Software has released a graphical operating system, NESOS ...

Apple sued Microsoft in 1988 for copyright infringement, claiming that Microsoft copied the "look and feel" of its operating system. Apple lost. Microsoft followed it with Windows 2.0 in December ...