Windows 1.0 officially released to the public 40 years ago today (November 20), and despite its age, still has some common similarities with what users can expect from the operating system today.

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

The August 2025 (KB5063878) Windows update caused an issue that prevented non-admin users from carrying out several vital operations due to misbehaving UAC prompts. Microsoft has since released its ...

Do you have a favorite Windows? It’s not something most folks think about unless you’ve experienced the rollercoaster Microsoft has put many PC fans through over the years. There’s a lot of nostalgia ...

Remember when the internet was just starting out? It was a wild, new place, nothing like what we see today. Back then, websites were pretty simple, mostly just words and pictures. We called this time ...

For many, MIDI means SoundBlaster cards, chiptunes, and WAD files played to the sound of a killer synth score. But Microsoft Windows has begun previewing MIDI 2.0, the first update to the MIDI ...

The integration test tap on the play button and 10 seconds later tap on the pause button. With audioplayers 5.2.0, this works, but with audioplayers 6.1.0, after playing has started, tapping on pause ...

Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution by Steven Sinofsky is an insider’s account of the events that drove Windows and the PC first to prominence and then to their inevitable ...

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