Aggressive pricing put Windows at the head of the growing personal computer market. Steve Ballmer, in his first ever video outing, boomed that the OS was priced at not $1,000 or $500 but just $99 ...

Windows, especially in recent years, has become more than just a desktop OS. Take, for instance, Windows Core OS. The future of the Windows OS brand may lie with Core OS, which is expected to be ...

Don’t be surprised if I say that 9 out of 10 computers run some version of the Windows operating system, today. However, no one could have predicted this outcome when the whole journey started ...

the breaking of the relationship with IBM is the turning point that birthed NT as a stand-alone version of Windows. Microsoft wanted NT to be its core desktop operating system, but it was not ...

Microsoft hosted an event Thursday detailing what's next for Windows 11, the operating system that has helped power personal computers since the '80s. Last month during the tech giant's Build ...

Microsoft's Core Operating System Division (COSD) is somewhat of a black hole to many outside (and even inside) the Redmond software maker. Charged with the amorphous goal of ensuring Windows ...

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 ...

It's the very first version of the most widely used desktop operating system in history, released in 1985. I went to a lot of trouble to run Windows 1.0 in a virtual machine on a Windows 7 PC a ...

But none of that makes much of a difference if the core OS is barely functional. Windows ME was a mess, and from our perspective, is the worst version of Windows ever released. Windows 8 feels ...

With the end of Windows XP support from Microsoft imminent, perhaps you’ve finally made the (very wise) decision to stop using the venerable operating system ... least a dual-core CPU and ...