Although Windows 95 stole the show, Windows 3.0 was arguably the first version of Windows that more or less nailed the basic Windows UI concept, with the major 3.1 update being quite recognizable to a ...

Let's go back in time to an era of personal computing, where dial-up internet was cutting-edge and desktop monitors were enormous. Specifically, let's jump to April 6, 1992, the day Microsoft released ...

Following the recent buzz surrounding Windows blue screen of death (BSOD), a Microsoft Windows veteran dev has talked in some detail about its origin going back to Windows 95, NT, and 3.1. On the ...

A retro computing enthusiast has successfully installed and run Microsoft Windows 3.1X, a 1992 operating system, on a modern PC powered by a Ryzen 9 9900X CPU and RTX 5060 Ti GPU. Using an Asus ...

Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the original IBM VGA standard through super VGA and then so-called “Windows ...

Other than the aforementioned use as an interface with old lab machines (We're got some here still on XP), I don't understand the market Recreations of Apple IIs or C64s I can understand since they're ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...