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Windows XP Turns 24: The Best Version of Windows Ever Made

It was a massive generational leap, one Windows users haven't seen since.
The Washington Post

XP, the Imperfectly Better Windows

Windows XP turned six months old on Wednesday, and Microsoft celebrated by touting the more than 32 million copies it has sold, either directly to consumers or installed on new computers. This makes ...

Windows 10 might be a goner but there are still some ancient icon relics inside Windows 11 that date all the way back to Windows 95

Whatever, the icons are 32 by 32 pixels and 16 colours, though Windows 95 did actually support 256-colour icons. And if you ...
PC World

The first-ever copy of Windows 95 shows up, unopened and pristine

Back in August 2023, Windows 95 became 28 years old. Official support for Windows 95 ended in 2001, to be replaced by Windows 98, then Windows XP, then Windows Vista. (Oof.) We’ve previously ...
Hackaday

Kernel Hack Brings Windows XP To The 486

The venerable Intel 486 was released in 1989 as the successor to the extremely popular Intel 386. It was the minimum recommended processor for Windows 98. (Surprisingly, the Windows 95 minimum was a ...
Hackaday

How Discord Was Ported To Windows 95 And NT 3.1

On the desktop, most people use the official HTML and JavaScript-based client for Discord in either a browser or a still-smells-like-a-browser Electron package. Yet what if there was a way to use a ...