A former Microsoft veteran engineer who had worked on multiple major Windows components and features recently shared a story relating to Zip support. Today, more back story about it was shared.
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Microsoft's release of 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet was the start of a long history for this game that was later bundled into many future versions of the Windows operating system.
Similar to Y2K22 and the far more popular Y2K superbugs, Y2K38 is also expected to wreak havoc in the computing world. Surprisingly, a Windows 95, 98, and 2000 era app is unaffected by it.
Microsoft officially launched Windows 2000 for businesses and organizations on February 17, 2000. 24 years after its launch, it has become somewhat forgotten due to the launch of Windows XP in 2001.
Microsoft began its Patch Tuesday efforts 20 years ago. Today, the company takes a look back at the past two decades of its Windows update efforts, and how it will continue to evolve in the future.
The third party JavaGPT application allows the ChatGPT chatbot to run on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 7, and other older versions of Microsoft's operating system with a Java GUI.
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Microsoft has made an important change in recent Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview builds by disabling SMB guest authentication fallbacks by default. This has been done to improve the security of the OS.
While much of the Royal Navy fleet uses a specialized version of Windows 2000, dubbed 'Windows for Warships', its new carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth does not, and it doesn't run Windows XP either.
Hacker group Shadow Brokers has released yet another cache of tools used by the NSA. Among them, these tools exploit vulnerabilities from Windows 2000 to Windows 8, including server variants.
A new survey of websites found that 6,000 of them are hosted on servers running Windows XP, but 500,000 of them are still using Windows 2000, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2010.
What annoys me even more are the "improvements" made to Windows search through the years. The search box in Windows 2000 is very powerful, there are no cute animations and there are no exclusions...
Microsoft has announced that they will be ending the product life cycle for Windows 2000 client and server support next year. Windows XP SP2 support will also come to an end, and are encouraging...
One of the biggest releases of patches since October 2008 is due on Tuesday June 9. Microsoft has confirmed it will deliver 10 security updates to patch some serious bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer,...
