Where Windows 8 has the familiar desktop waiting beneath its Metro UI, Windows 1.0 ran on top of the popular MS-DOS. In fact, you needed to install Windows 1.0 atop an existing installation of MS ...

Windows 1.0 stood the test of time and Microsoft offered supported for its debut outing for 16 years – the most for any version of the OS that has ever seen a release.

Playing with Windows 1.0 in your web browser. Obviously, Windows 1.0 is a little ancient. In fact, your old-and-busted dumb phone could probably handle its system requirements: 256Kb of memory, a ...

Brooks is often seen tweeting about various things he has found in older builds of Windows, including Easter eggs. And recently he discovered a never-before-seen secret in Windows 1.0 RTM (the RTM ...

Windows 1.0 also set the stage for the mouse. If you used MS-DOS then you could only type in commands, but with Windows 1.0 you picked up a mouse and moved windows around by pointing and clicking.

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Windows 10 users on the Windows Insiders Fast Ring should see this in the "next few months". Windows Terminal 1.0 is available from the Microsoft Store and the GitHub releases page . More Microsoft ...

Windows 1.0 debuted nearly 34 years ago, on November 20, 1985. It consisted of a 16-bit graphical shell plopped on top of MS-DOS. Microsoft intended it to be used with a keyboard, but mouse ...

But Windows 1.0 was marketed as an upgrade for people already running MS-DOS — and, in fact, it ran on top of MS-DOS, so anybody who wanted Windows had to have MS-DOS installed first. So did ...

On November 20, 1985, Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0, a then new operating system. Development took two years after the Windows announcement in 1983, leading skeptics to call it “vaporware.”See EDN‘s ...

Microsoft's Twitter account adopted a Bill and Ted persona yesterday to announce Windows 1.0 from 1985. The company hasn't explained what it's planning but told a fan to "just take a chill pill ...

Lucas Brooks, an avid Windows fan who digs through and analyzes its early iterations, recently shared his discovery of an easter egg that's been hiding in Windows 1.0 for nearly 37 years.