Even if you're perfectly content with Windows 10, updates will soon cost extra and you'll eventually need to switch to ...

Much of our list focuses on standalone iterations of the Windows operating system. A key exception is Windows 3.1, which really transformed Windows and Windows PCs into multimedia machines.

Microsoft will stop supporting the operating system later this year. If you’re still running Windows 10, here are your options.

The first major Windows release should be higher on this list, but the first attempt at an operating system wasn’t much of an operating system — at least how we know them today. It was ...