This special report marks the 40th anniversary of Microsoft Windows, which launched on November 20, 1985, and traces its four ...

The terminal-based task manager dstask has reached version 1.0. The most important innovation: developers can now also use ...

Windows 3.0 arrived in 1990, offering a much refined interface making use of 16 colors, better resource management, and improved usability. It was an impressive improvement on Windows 2.0/2.1, ...

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 ...