Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, ...

GoGuardian Delivers Powerful Windows Enhancements to Support Multi-Platform School Environments

Comprehensive updates across GoGuardian Admin, Teacher, and Beacon ensure robust performance for K-12 schools operating Windows or mixed-device ecosystemsLOS ANGELES, Dec. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ...

Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads

Legacy Update has for years been a tremendously useful site and tool for those wanting to keep older versions of Windows ...

Want to save your old computer? Try one of these 9 Linux distros - for free

Ubuntu MATE uses the MATE desktop (which is lightweight yet full-featured), which makes it easy for new users to hop onto the Linux bandwagon. MATE is as easy as it gets, with a bottom panel, a top ...

Was Windows 3.1's infamously garish 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme a joke? I asked the original designer

"The truly funny thing about this color scheme is that all the other Windows 3.1 color schemes are surprisingly rational, ...

Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to ge…

"The truly funny thing about this color scheme is that all the other Windows 3.1 color schemes are surprisingly rational, ...

This relaxing take on Civilization wrapped in Windows 2000 style just hit 1.0, it's completely free, and I'm mesmerized

Gray windows and simple graphics make CivIdle a 4X strategy game you could get away with playing on office time, back in 2001 anyway.