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Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated. People wanted to know: Why not just do that whole thing in MS-DOS?… ...
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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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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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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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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 ...