Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Mac operating systems have inspired truly prodigious amounts of adulation and horror on the part of computer users for about three decades now. Those of us who love ...

Growing up using a PC that ran on Windows 3.1, I don't think it ever occurred to me that there was a Windows 2.1. Or 1.0. That was just Windows, until Windows 95 came around a few years later. But ...

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

Windows 1.0 did set the stage for Microsoft to take the OS market by storm, however, and it introduced some iconic features that you might still be using t ...

First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project that would eventually become Windows actually started life under a far wonkier name: "Interface ...