The Air Force’s ASM-135 missile test in 1985 was the first kinetic destruction of a satellite in orbit. It would not be the last.

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, ...

Windows 3.1's Hot Dog Stand color scheme wasn't a joke, but "a garish choice, in case somebody out there liked ugly bright red and yellow." ...

"The truly funny thing about this color scheme is that all the other Windows 3.1 color schemes are surprisingly rational, totally reasonable color schemes," tech blogger Jeff Atwood wrote back in 2005 ...

Even by 1985 standards, Windows 1.0 was clunky and garish. It lacked finesse, and Microsoft had ripped out overlapping windows before launch, leaving a weird tiling system that made multitasking ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. So, this is alarming and new. It turns out the “looming security ...

Ever wondered what owning a computer in the 1980s was like? Outside of nostalgia, it wasn’t the best. Until 1984, unless you were in some kind of strange lab or university, nearly everything was ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...

In 1985, Bill Gates demonstrated at Comdex what could be done with the graphical user interface “Windows 1.0” and praised how much it “oriented itself to the natural visual and working habits of ...

It’s no surprise that Windows remains the world’s most widely used operating system for desktops and laptops—a position it has held for decades, thanks to its dominant market share. That’s not the ...

Windows 1.0 officially released to the public 40 years ago today (November 20), and despite its age, still has some common similarities with what users can expect from the operating system today.

Judge Bruce Wright delivers an address as part of the University of SC's Black Scholar lectures. In the first part of this episode of "For the People", New York Supreme Court Judge Bruce Wright ...