I bought a used hard drive on eBay for an old laptop. Even though it's been reformatted (format c: /u) with the DOS 6.22 setup disk, when I go to install Windows 95, it's pulling the old user's name ...

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility? Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated.

In a nutshell: When trying to install Windows 95 for the first time, PC users were presented with a dull text interface and no graphics. DOS could indeed "do graphics," but the Windows team decided to ...