In the tech world, this was to have been one of the biggest events of the year. Microsoft, the industry's queen, would be giving birth to her newest bundled bit of joy, a precocious blue-and-white ...

Despite Windows XP’s promises of improved stability and a generally more useful interface, not even Madonna can make it the right choice for many computer users. Hyped as the most significant new ...

Early sales of Windows XP have exceeded those of some previous Microsoft Corp. desktop operating systems, boosting PC-related industries, the company said Thursday, citing independent research figures ...

Windows 95 is alive and well in the United States Pentagon. Daryl Haegley, program manager for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and Environment reported at an ...

Windows XP’s retail release was October 25, 2001, ten years ago today. Though no longer readily available to buy, it continues to cast a long shadow over the PC industry: even now, a slim majority of ...

If you remember when Windows 95 launched then you'll probably struggle to think of a product that has been that extensively publicized in one big push since. In the UK Microsoft paid huge sums of ...

20 years ago today, Microsoft launched Windows 95, with help from the Rolling Stones "Start me Up." The song choice was prophetic. For better or worse, the launch of Windows 95 was the beginning of a ...

We often think about the evolution of the PC in terms of hardware, especially now, with AMD and Nvidia both on the cusp of releasing a new generation of GPUs. But on the software side, many of the the ...

Nothing short of a mechanism that would automatically upgrade them to a more recent version of Windows for free without need for user intervention would be enough, and in the case of those who are ...

Crystal Dew World has released a major update to its retro Windows benchmarking tool. The updated CrystalMark Retro 2.0.0 was made available today, as freeware, and the major change here is that its ...

The 20-year-old Microsoft OS can be run directly from the browser - thanks to a student project to recreate memories of computing from their childhood. It’s been more than 20 years since the release ...

Twenty years ago this week, Microsoft introduced its Windows 95 operating system on CD-ROM. One of the legacies of the operating system was its dreamy startup music, composed by legendary producer ...