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Every Microsoft Windows operating system, ranked
In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped ...
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A Visual History: Microsoft Windows Over the Decades
Microsoft is turning 50, and nothing has defined the tech giant more than Windows. Like you, we've loved some versions of the ...
Iconic Windows 95 startup chime added to National Recording Registry
The Library of Congress announced this year’s 25 selections to add into its National Recording Registry. Although often ...
Microsoft Turns 50: A Look Back At the Evolution of Windows
As Microsoft turns 50, let's delve into the evolution of Windows and how the operating system has matured over the years.
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A Visual History: Microsoft Windows Over the Decades
PCMag has covered Microsoft's Windows operating system from its first iteration ... Microsoft had seen what Apple was doing with the graphical user interface (GUI) of its early computers, starting ...
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.
The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings
Tracks added to the list are judged to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress, ...
Brian Eno’s Windows 95 start-up sound just got preserved forever in the US Library of Congress
New entrants are added “based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage” ...
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How Microsoft Transformed the Windows Logo with New Technologies?
The Windows logo of Microsoft has drastically changed from the time when it was first launched in 1985. With time, it has ...