Let's go back in time to an era of personal computing, where dial-up internet was cutting-edge and desktop monitors were enormous. Specifically, let's jump to April 6, 1992, the day Microsoft released ...

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 ...

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Running Windows 3.1 in VMware, DOSBox-X, or QEMU, but annoyed by having to grab and ungrab the cursor manually? Wish you could just move the cursor in and out like a modern OS (one with USB tablet ...

The application injects into DWM and hooks DrawText method that is used to compute the area, and draw the title bar text for the window. By doing so, we achieve the effect with least amount of ...

GBS Windows is what happens when retro computing and retro gaming collide. Developer RubenRetro has created a Windows 3.1 clone for the Game Boy Color, complete with Minesweeper and MS Paint clones, ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Kevin, and is the first in a series covering a weird and wonderful corner of retrocomputing. I’m Kevin Lipe, 512 Pixels’ somewhat-official ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

WTF?! The 2-in-1 form factor usually refers to a laptop with a touchscreen and a 360-degree hinge enabling the use of Windows in traditional and tablet-like modes. However, Lenovo's new ThinkBook Plus ...

Southwest Airlines kept on flying in part thanks to using an ancient version of Microsoft's OS, even if it's not really recommended. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

One industry that experienced the brunt of the recent CrowdStrike global IT outage, which put millions of Windows systems into a Blue Screen of Death loop, was air travel. In the U.S., nearly every ...