As of January 15th 2018, Mainstream support for Windows 8 ends for good, which means that no more updates will be provided to licensed owners of the operating system, including security updates and patches.

30 years ago today, on November 20th 1985, Bill Gates introduced to the world the first iteration of what would become, for decades, a permanent contender in the 30-years run for the title of most popular operating system for PC, on a worldwide scale, alongside a rainbow-striped Apple Computers.