A major upgrade to Windows 3.0, introduced in 1992. It added more stability and support for multimedia, TrueType fonts, compound documents (OLE) and drag & drop. Windows 3.1 ran 16-bit Windows and ...

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated. People wanted to know: Why not just do that whole thing in MS-DOS?… ...

Starting in the 1990s, Windows NT ushered in a new architecture that has been carried forward more or less intact ever since. Current client version of Windows. Windows is a 64-bit OS and runs ...

Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the original IBM VGA standard through super VGA and then so-called “Windows ...

Southwest and FedEx operate on Windows 3.1, avoiding the CloudStrike glitch. While Microsoft resolved the root cause, ...

In development as the eventual successor to the long-standing NTFS (New Technology File System) introduced with Windows NT 3.1 in July 1993, Microsoft first added its new "Resilient File System ...

In Microsoft terms though its history goes back only as far as Windows 98, earlier MS operating systems remain off-limits. Neither piece of software is especially useful, and we can’t see a rush ...