40 years ago today — on November 10th, 1983 — Bill Gates took the wraps off Windows 1.0, with the key features being tiled applications, dropdown menus, and a user-friendly interface. Microsoft didn’t ...

Windows 3.0 arrived in 1990, offering a much refined interface making use of 16 colors, better resource management, and improved usability. It was an impressive improvement on Windows 2.0/2.1, ...