In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped ...

While Microsoft’s repertoire has evolved since then – it released Xbox, bought Nokia, and slicked-up its screen displays – some things have stayed remarkably the same since the first iteration of ...

The original version of Microsoft Windows, which was introduced in 1985. Windows 1.0 was a DOS application that provided a crude windowing environment. Its "MS-DOS Executive" was the launching pad ...