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Copilot is Microsoft’s cue to redeem Windows and edge past macOS
Copilot offers Microsoft a rare opportunity to redefine Windows, and a capable hardware platform to carry it ahead of the Mac ...
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” ...
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, ...
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 ...
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Windows 95 is now considered culturally significant
Windows 95 is a fairly iconic piece of software in itself due to the fact that it's the first Windows 9x release, along with ...
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.