The Mac slowly chipped away at Windows' global market share, though Apple still has just 25% of the overall desktop market. But Microsoft at 50 seems to own that middle-aged mantle. It's focused more ...

Iconic! Windows 1.0 marked the transition from the text-based world of MS-DOS into the visual world of the GUI, which had taken off with 1983’s release of the Apple Lisa. Naturally, Windows 1.0 ...

With MS-DOS 2.0, Microsoft replaced "the traditional ... Mac made "the PC's display look like a relic from the past." Windows 1.0 Desktop (Credit: Microsoft/PCMag) Windows "puts a new face on ...

Microsoft is now 50 years old and after 50 years it's seen some major changes. Here are some of its biggest milestones and ...

Selecting milestones and millstones for the Redmond-based biz is tricky since there are so many. The operating systems would have to take prominence, as well as the productivity applications. Also ...

Wikipedia Windows 1.0 was the necessary first step ... memory segments while maintaining backwards compatibility with MS-DOS, using what former Windows president Steven Sinofsky called “hacks ...