Following the recent buzz surrounding Windows blue screen of death (BSOD), a Microsoft Windows veteran dev has talked in some detail about its origin going back to Windows 95, NT, and 3.1. On the ...

The recent blackcomb discussion told me that NT has its root in the IBM OS/2 codebase. Does anyone have a link to the history of the NT codebase - like how and why the original code was created, what ...

Microsoft released Windows NT 4.0 to manufacturing partners on this day in 1996.

The Windows 11 you use today is still identified as "Windows NT" in some ways, and that's because its lineage extends all the way back to the venerable Windows NT. Version 3.5 is widely considered the ...

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. On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft ...