Bill Gates has scored a quick, unexpected victory with the news that Microsoft’s Windows 98 is ringing up mega sales. Since its release last Thursday, Microsoft’s newest operating system software flew ...

How many versions were there? Microsoft entered the marketplace in August 1981 by releasing version 1.0 of the operating system Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS), a 16-bit command-line operating system The first ...

With Windows 98 on the verge of reaching store shelves, it becomes ever more clear that Bill Gates is building a whole lot more than just the ultimate Wintel (Microsoft running on Intel chips) ...

The latest release of the world’s dominant computer operating system officially goes on sale Thursday with about 1/100th of the hoopla that greeted the debut of Windows 95 almost three years ago. Even ...

One day in the summer of 1995, I sat down in front of a perfectly good PC and stuck a brand new Microsoft Windows 95 CD in the drive. Then I swallowed hard and clicked on Setup. To my utter amazement, ...

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 ...

Windows 98 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on May 15, 1998 and to retail on ...

November 20, 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of the very first version of Windows -- Windows 1.0. On this day, the operating system which now runs on over 75% desktop computers worldwide ...