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Microsoft Turns 50: A Look Back At the Evolution of Windows
As Microsoft turns 50, let's delve into the evolution of Windows and how the operating system has matured over the years.
Microsoft turns 50! Here are its 25 most important products and milestones
Microsoft celebrates its fiftieth anniversary on April 4, 2025. How did it get here? We've picked 25 moments that shaped ...
Iconic Windows 95 startup chime added to National Recording Registry
The Library of Congress announced this year’s 25 selections to add into its National Recording Registry. Although often ...
'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 …
April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates ...
Microsoft’s worst software flop was secretly packed with Windows for years
A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data ...
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A Visual History: Microsoft Windows Over the Decades
Scroll through our visual history below to see how far Windows ... Windows 1.0 Desktop (Credit: Microsoft/PCMag) Windows "puts a new face on DOS and uses DOS to do some work," we said.
Microsoft’s wildest moment in 50 years still makes us laugh
Microsoft is 50 on Friday. It's been quite a ride for the computer giant, but there's one wild moment that really stands out.
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A Surface History: Microsoft’s Ever-Evolving Vision for the Future of Computing
With its wide-ranging family of hardware, Microsoft has reimagined how we compute—again and again. As the company turns 50, ...