Unlike traditional shell replacements like Cairo Shell or Open-Shell that are built with native Windows APIs and compiled C++ ...

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

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 ...

Microsoft's secret new Start menu replacement is impressive — and might even be a sneak preview of what's on the way with Windows 12. The Windows Start menu isn’t the best search tool when it comes to ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

In a nutshell: The MIDI 2.0 standard was introduced in 2020, nearly 40 years after the original version. MIDI remains a crucial technology for musicians and music producers, and its utility on PCs is ...

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away, and never has that been more true than with the latest version of Windows now rolling out to users’ PCs. Last month, the software giant began dispatching an ...

What just happened? The Control Panel has been an essential component of Microsoft Windows for decades, and was originally introduced in Windows 1.0 in the mid-80s. However, its days are numbered as ...