In another example of "everything old is new again," you can now recapture that old-school Microsoft feeling without even a single floppy disk drive. The year was 1980-something. One afternoon, a ...

Whatever else you can say about Windows 11—and whatever you think about its pushy tendencies and the Copilot feature that has been rolled out to pretty much everyone despite being labeled a ...

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 ...

Top 5 things you didn’t know about Windows 1.0 Your email has been sent Windows still has more than 75% of the market on the desktop, but that wasn’t inevitable ...

Since Win11, I find myself using Notepad deliberately more often. This will add a useful increment to it. Frankly, the last time I saw a real upgrade to Notepad was when it became able to handle more ...

Windows 1.0 officially released to the public 40 years ago today (November 20), and despite its age, still has some common similarities with what users can expect from the operating system today.

We all have to handle plain text files from time to time, and we know that printing files with the built-in Notepad applet in Windows should be called “pain text.” Fortunately, I’ve found a way to ...

The workaround here is pretty simple, thanks to Microsoft. They have now made apps like Notepad, Wordpad, and Paint Optional features on Windows. This means they can be uninstalled and reinstalled as ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. When Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, it's a big deal. But on Monday, the ...