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 ...

Building applications for Windows 11. It’s important to note that there’s no need to pause your Windows application development; what you’re doing right now will still work with Windows 11.

Most Windows 11 preview builds focus on adding features, but sometimes Microsoft uses them to remove things. Users installing the latest Windows 11 Home Insider builds will find that support for ...

The issues that stymied Windows 1.0 when Microsoft was young won’t necessarily block today’s operating system from success, not when every major computer company is churning out compatible ...

But Microsoft continues to keep SMBv1 in Windows 11 which dates back to the early '80s with DOS and O/S2 networking, so TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will probably be in Windows well into the 2040's.

Growing up using a PC that ran on Windows 3.1, I don't think it ever occurred to me that there was a Windows 2.1. Or 1.0. That was just Windows, until Windows 95 came around a few years later. But ...