Remembering what Windows 10 did right—and how it made modern Windows more annoying

Windows 10 wasn’t perfect; these examples of what it did right are cherry-picked. But part of the operating system’s ...

GMKtec M7 Ultra Mini PC review: OCuLink, 32GB DDR5, 1TB, and USB4 all for $4700 0

GMKtec's M7 Ultra comes with a Ryzen 7 PRO mobile CPU, DDR5 memory and a roomy 1TB SSD, plus you can plug an external dGPU ...

Use Windows 3.1 straight from your browser to boot up pure nostalgia

Remember Windows 3.1? If there's a thrill when you think about it, you can relive the whole environment at one masterful programmer's website.
GeekWire

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

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
PC Gamer

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 get the ...

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Back in the day ...