Nicely laid out article, I think Win2K deserved an honorable mention, specially after the catastrophic failure of Win ME.

@Loka I already wear glasses, but luckily they are not reading glasses

Picture of an Apple Computer! Lets post condescending comments with a typed accent!

Windows 8 is going to suck because pictures resembling the Metro UI do not offer touch screen functionality on Windows 7 and a non-touch enabled monitor. Suck it M$.

nice... great job trying to put together 30 years of history in an article... save this one and repost it in 10 years to see how far we've come.. cool to see IBM posted several times =)

ok, props to Intel on 386DX (marking the 1st of many lawsuits against AMD for reverse engineering, but i loved my AMD 386DX 40mHz!) 1st 32 bit CPU. 486 DX million transistors and FPU on one die (or if the FPU failed, disable it and sell a 486 SX lol), the Pentium 60/66 and later 100mhz. and i give Intel props for fully disclosing the "Pentium bug" an errata that would have affected a incredibly small portion of people, yet Intel stepped up and took the hit. but c'mon... give AMD props for hitting 1ghz, x64-86 and Dual Core to market before Intel. this despite Intel slamming the later two as un necessary while still touting the P-4 deep pipline, hrmph. and how about MS for investing in Apple? and no Zork, EQ or birth of LAN parties...ahh those were the days... when you would start a DL and leave it all day, surrendering you phone line. remember those?? home phones, with wires??

Steve Jobs didn't resign from Apple, he only resigned as a CEO. He's still working for Apple though.

Netscape, wow that died a quiet death, sort of reminds me of Altavista before google showed up and MySpace before Facebook

Not at all...

https://www.mozilla.org/about/history.html

Why you post it in Win8 theme?

WOW , quake , doom and half life definetly deserved a mention , i also think EQ or ultima online deserve a mention , UO was light years ahead of its time and still no modern games have as many features . EQ invented the WOW type of MMO.

Enjoyed the article , nice to have a trip down memory lane

Nice, but you forgot to include the best selling personal computer of all time - The Commodore 64.
Also the Vic 20, The Amiga 500 and Atari.

great review thanks for TechSpot