Microsoft had seemingly intentionally crippled the performance of certain aspects of the Windows Control Panel in the past for some reason.
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Miss the good-old days of Windows 95 and 98? Someone just modded Windows 11 to look like something straight from the 90s.
Microsoft earlier today, in collaboration with IBM, announced that it is open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code. The company has explained what was special about it and how to run it.
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.
While the non-geeks and non-nerds out there may feel like it's a giant waste of time, a YouTuber managed to port "thousands of apps" back to Windows 95. However, it was no easy thing to do.
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 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.
It is probably not a bad guess to say that at least some Windows enthusiasts own some retro PC that still has Windows 95 or similar in it. If you wanted to update it, this website may help.
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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The demonstration of Windows 98 with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on stage during a COMDEX keynote address on April 20, 1998, was highly memorable, but definitely for the wrong reasons.
The ESA's MARSIS instrument inside the Mars Express orbiter is finally getting a much needed software upgrade to improve its performance. The previous software is 20 years old and based on Windows 98.
A technology project designer has actually managed to build a Raspberry Pi wristwatch running Microsoft's 18-year old Windows 98 OS. He reportedly did this to make the ancient OS wearable.