First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project that would eventually become Windows actually started life under a far wonkier name: "Interface ...

Windows went on sale 40 years ago. Here's the whole history of the operating system, from Windows 1 to 11 and everything in between.

Microsoft’s newest, smaller Surface Pro tablet delivers the ultraportable design Surfaces are known for, but middling ...

Executives with a combined 130+ years of tenure on the company’s decades of work to get people to talk to their PCs—and why the time might finally be right.

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, today announced the official launch of Version 1.0 of IBKR Desktop, a next-generation ...

If you've ever built a gaming PC, chances are you've met the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. Now, Microsoft Windows is officially retiring it, and yes, we're getting a black one instead. And if you're ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

For many, MIDI means SoundBlaster cards, chiptunes, and WAD files played to the sound of a killer synth score. But Microsoft Windows has begun previewing MIDI 2.0, the first update to the MIDI ...

One of the great things about this past Summer Olympics coverage—apart from the compelling competition and the U.S. team’s gold medal tally—was that NBC offered 24/7 coverage of the events in high ...