It was 1989, and I was obsessed with the Mac. Apple's portable, 9-inch-screen computer was an exciting graphical leap, and I wanted to use it for everything. But I wasn't using it. Instead, I, like ...

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988’s MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity, ...

总体来看，这一早期 Windows 的快速重启机制在理念上颇为超前，但由于硬件、驱动和系统架构的限制，始终难以做到稳定可靠。它最终被完整重启机制所取代，却也成为 Windows 演进史中一个“有缺陷但很酷”的技术尝试。

TL;DR: Microsoft will likely never release the original source code of Windows into the wild, but the company is clearly interested in sharing important episodes of its software development history.

This could fit in any one of the top five forums on the list, so I'll try my luck here and if the mods move it, so be it. <BR>There is a Windows 98 machine at my school that in booting will go as far ...

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 ...