How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

128 points by ayi 11 months ago | 73 comments

Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

255 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 136 comments

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts(devblogs.microsoft.com)

158 points by tybulewicz 1 month ago | 101 comments

A Raymond Chen post on The Old New Thing blog recounting the history of Windows scroll bar operations and shortcuts, including the Windows 7 right-click menu.

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

338 points by soheilpro 1 month ago | 165 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how Windows XP picked a new user's initial account picture from the default pictures directory.

Microspeak: Escrow(devblogs.microsoft.com)

14 points by ibobev 8 months ago | 8 comments

What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

289 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 150 comments

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

338 points by soheilpro 1 month ago | 165 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how Windows XP picked a new user's initial account picture from the default pictures directory.

Windows on Btrfs(lilysthings.org)

456 points by susam 3 years ago | 206 comments

A personal blog post describing installing and booting Windows from a btrfs filesystem using the WinBtrfs driver and the open source Quibble bootloader.

The day Windows died(thomasbandt.com)

918 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 710 comments

Personal blog post by Thomas Bandt recounting his history with Windows and why setting it up as his son's first computer didn't work out.

Our commitment to Windows quality(blogs.windows.com)

567 points by hadrien01 7 months ago | 1034 comments

A Windows Insider blog post by Pavan Davuluri at Microsoft about the company's commitment to improving Windows quality.

Ollama is now available on Windows in preview(ollama.com)

337 points by pentagrama 2 years ago | 137 comments

Ollama blog post from February 15, 2024 announcing a preview release of Ollama for Windows.

Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state(scottrlarson.com)

433 points by trinsic2 1 year ago | 286 comments

Blog post by Scott Larson arguing that Windows 10's retirement reflects Microsoft's shift toward user surveillance in newer Windows versions.