As we learn more about Windows 11, let's take a look back and how the operating system has changed. Windows 1.0 Release date: November 1985 Key features: Microsoft moves away from MS-DOS with its ...

Because it looks like someone just did. Over on Twitter, Lucas Brooks disclosed a Windows 1.0 find: A list of the at-the-time Windows team (via WinFuture). The list contains a little "congrats!" ...

But Windows 1.0 was marketed as an upgrade for people already running MS-DOS — and, in fact, it ran on top of MS-DOS, so anybody who wanted Windows had to have MS-DOS installed first.

You see, Windows 1.0 was trying to sell businesses and customers on a radical new paradigm – the graphical user interface (GUI) – at a time when arguably only one company, Apple, had made ...