I think I finally understand why my mind so often wanders back to that picture-perfect day in Redmond, Washington, and the Windows 95 launch event on August 24, 1995. Put simply, it's a combination of ...

Just listen to that short clip above. Go on, I'll wait. That, my friends, is the sound that began some of my early computing experiences, when this hardware writer was a mere whelp dipping his toes ...

Microsoft has done something awesome for the Windows nostalgic. Oct. 2, 2013 — -- The year was 1995. If you weren't busy watching the OJ Simpson trial or "Seinfeld," you might have been listening ...

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 ...