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’s momentous Windows 95 operating system became available to the public on this day 30 years ago. Computing enthusiasts were queuing around the block at midnight launch events. Perhaps this ...

Because I thought I had discovered something nobody knew ...

Raymond Chen recently shared another interesting tidbit about the inner workings of Windows 95. The original 32-bit consumer operating system had a "secret" fast-restart feature, which ...

Windows 95 was an amazing operating system that would forever transform the world of home computing, setting the standard for user interaction on a desktop and quite possibly was the OS which had the ...

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 ...

Remember the quaint old Windows 95 operating system? That’s even a step back from the iconic Windows 98 that is widely considered the first Windows version to offer a truly rich multimedia experience.

Last Friday, there was a worldwide IT system outage that took down millions of computers around the world. It was so catastrophic that it’s been labeled as the largest IT meltdown of all time. Due to ...

How about a hefty dose of nostalgia? On this day in 1995, 30 years ago today, Microsoft released the operating system known as Windows 95. The company had released operating systems and various ...

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 ...