The history of Microsoft’s flagship operating system (OS) includes all of that and so much more. Over the past 35 years, the Windows operating system has been through many reinventions.

A Visual History of Windows. Over its 40 years, PCMag has covered every version of Microsoft's operating system. Like you, sometimes we loved it, and sometimes we didn't.

Here is the history of Microsoft Windows operating system and its versions, from Windows 1.0 to Windows 11. Here is a chronology of events that take you through the highlights.

Tour the 23-year history of the Windows operating system at this link from Wired Magazine, starting with Windows 1.o (above), which was released in November 1985 (“It’s not surprising it was a ...

Instead of requiring administrators to seek out third-party apps to handle particular tasks, Windows Server offered these utilities as part of the operating system itself.

In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped, in order from worst to best.

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