One way or another, you’re interacting with operating systems. Your smartphone uses one, and your tablet and laptop do as well. However, little is said about how the ways we interact with our ...

The history of computing is littered with the remains of forgotten operating systems—some rendered obsolete by technological ...

What comes to mind when you look back at the history of Windows? Is it the iconic logos, the ever-changing Start menus, or maybe the introduction of Live Tiles? The story of Microsoft’s flagship ...

With the "Virtual OS Museum", 80 years of computer history can be experienced directly in the emulator. The project makes historical systems usable with a click.

Windows Vista notably didn’t make the cut — but [Andrew]’s Virtual OS museum has a good claim to being the most ...

Long before Windows, and even before MS-DOS, Microsoft sold a Unix-based operating system it called Xenix in 1980. It was the first OS made by the company, but it eventually sold it off in 1987. On ...

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...