Microsoft is turning 50, and nothing has defined the tech giant more than Windows. Like you, we've loved some versions of the desktop OS, and others...not so much.

With its wide-ranging family of hardware, Microsoft has reimagined how we compute—again and again. As the company turns 50, ...

Slot-based CPUs like Intel's Pentium II were an important part of PC history before modern flat processors took over. Optical ...

He pioneers the use of binary math and boolean logic in electronic calculation. Colossus, a British computer used for code-breaking, is operational by December of 1943. ENIAC, or Electronic ...

It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented the computer. In the early 1940s John Presper “Pres” Eckert Jr. was a grad student ...

the main exhibition area is about twice as large as that of Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. First floor: The Basics of Communication and Calculation The main exhibit begins with ...

the market declined 28.7% – the biggest drop in PC history. In Q1 2024, global PC shipments finally returned to pre-pandemic levels as volumes rivaled those seen in 1Q19 when 60.5 million units were ...