News

How-To Geek on MSN13d
FreeDOS 1.3 Has Arrived, Still Runs MS-DOS Games and Apps
It still has excellent compatibility with MS-DOS software, including Windows 3.1 and earlier, and many of the built-in ...
TechRadar19d
I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning 50 is more important than you think
Windows 95 Plus, which included Internet Explorer, would arrive later, and cost an additional $49.99. As with MS-DOS before it, soon, virtually all new PCs were shipping with Windows 95.
Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0
To get the answer, just put a decimal point in the number "50"—my first Microsoft product was MS-DOS 5.0.
Hackaday16d
windows 95
It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [Ms-Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival East 2025. They had no fewer than nine computers ...
Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.
There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs
The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics ...
Hackaday4y
Start Me Up: What Has The Windows 95 Desktop Given Us 25 Years Later?
It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system ... standards of today and the uneasy marriage of 16-bit DOS underpinning a 32-bit Windows operating system was clunky ...