Today is a big birthday for Microsoft Windows, as the iconic operating system turns 30. While there have been numerous incarnations of Windows over the years -- we are currently on Windows 10 -- and ...

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 ...

Next week, Microsoft will release the first public beta of Windows 8. It will be the biggest change to how Windows looks and feels since the product was invented in 1985. But don't take our word for ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...

I may maintain that the fact that Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses in six months doesn’t mean much. But that doesn’t mean that Windows sales figures aren’t interesting. In fact, ...

After a few more posts, including videos that featured a wonky synthesizer soundtrack, it became clearer that it was a promo with Netflix to promote Stranger Things 3, which launched on the streaming ...

The early days of Windows were inauspicious ones. Sitting on top of DOS, it was hardly a revolution in personal computing -- instead it felt like a disjointed platform perched uncomfortably atop a ...