Windows Report

Modder Gets Windows 98 Working on Legacy Internet Appliance

A retrocomputing project shows Windows 98 running on a Compaq iPAQ IA-2 using clever boot tricks and BIOS workarounds.

How a boot-chain hack brought Windows 98 to a locked-down internet appliance

A clever hack revives Windows 98 on a locked‑down internet appliance, but it's not what you'd call a practical PC.
PC World

Microsoft Windows hits 40 years old: A visual walk down memory lane

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...
Windows Central

The day Windows 98 crashed live — and Bill Gates built a secret lab to make sure it never happened again

The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) is synonymous with Microsoft's Windows operating system. The full-screen error is designed to alert users of a critical system failure ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again

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