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How to play old CD-ROM games on Windows again

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...
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Microsoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game—no matter where you play' but Linux and Valve's SteamOS have other ideas

In a new blog post, Microsoft says its, "commitment is to make Windows the best place to game—no matter where you play." The company lays out a detailed checklist of all the measures it has taken to ...
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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 ...
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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 ...