Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains how Windows 95 used file names and paths to detect installer programs and protect ...
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has confirmed what we all suspected about Windows 95: it guessed when a setup program ...
Windows 95 relied on surprisingly simple tricks to spot setup files, revealing an unexpected design choice behind its ...
The switch from Windows 3.x to Windows 95 was a big step for Microsoft and their software developers. Accordingly, Microsoft tested the compatibility of as many programs as possible when making the ...
Retro Potato: Raymond Chen is once again sharing an intriguing behind-the-scenes story about the making of Windows 95. It turns out that building the setup process for the consumer-oriented operating ...
Someone saw a 30-year-old OS and thought it needed a Linux subsystem.
If you have any interest in retro-computing, you know it can be difficult to round up the last official bug fixes and updates available for early Internet-era versions of Windows like 95, 98, and NT 4 ...