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Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?
If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility? Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has ...
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Windows 3.1
A major upgrade to Windows 3.0, introduced in 1992. It added more stability and support for multimedia, TrueType fonts, compound documents (OLE) and drag & drop. Windows 3.1 ran 16-bit Windows and ...
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Microsoft veteran shares Windows NT, 3.1, 95 Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) origin story0 0
On the second half of July 2024, one of the biggest Windows outages hit enterprises and businesses worldwide as a consequence of a botched CrowdStrike Falcon update. The cybersecurity firm ...
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Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals
Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has settled once and for all the question of why the Windows 95 setup program went on a tour of GUIs before finally introducing the user to the concept of the Start ...
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Thirty Years Later, The Windows 3.1 Video Driver You Needed
Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the original IBM VGA standard through super VGA and then so-called “Windows ...
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Developed as a replacement for NTFS, Microsoft's next generation ReFS file system was introduced with what version of Windows?
In development as the eventual successor to the long-standing NTFS (New Technology File System) introduced with Windows NT 3.1 in July 1993, Microsoft first added its new "Resilient File System ...
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Intel ends 10th Gen and older support with its Windows 11 22H2 WDDM 3.1 drivers0 0
With Windows 11 22H2 launch looming right around the corner, hardware vendors like Intel and AMD are beginning to release drivers with added support for the upcoming Windows 11 feature update.