Developer Raymond Chen says Windows XP shipped with an encrypted version of Microsoft Bob to pad out 30MB of free space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In context: Piracy has been a part of Windows history from the very beginning. Microsoft began taking the issue seriously with Windows XP, and Dave Plummer has now revealed that the first unauthorized ...

I think most people would agree that Windows Millennium Edition (ME) was the bastard child Microsoft wanted to turn its back on. After yesterday's Patch Tuesday, I'm starting to think Windows XP and ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

How many versions were there? Microsoft entered the marketplace in August 1981 by releasing version 1.0 of the operating system Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS), a 16-bit command-line operating system The first ...

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 ...

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Until Windows Me removed it Windows was just a shell of DOS. Windows XP onwards Windows was Windows NT with Windows 9.x compatibility added in. There is stuff for Windows XP days that works on Windows ...