Windows 95's "SYSBCKUP" trick saved Microsoft's OS from rogue installations

Windows 95 had a clever safeguard against sloppy installers that few would have known about.
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Windows turns 30: A brief retrospective

Thirty years ago, on November 20, 1985, Microsoft released version 1.0 of its new graphical shell called Windows. Much has been written about how Microsoft copied the Macintosh and Lisa, and how in ...
Ars Technica

Remembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company’s 50th birthday

A story about an obsolete PC, an old library book, and a one version of MS-DOS.
TechSpot

Check out MS-DOS running natively on modern hardware, showcasing the incredible backward compatibility of x86

In brief: A YouTuber has demonstrated the ability to run the venerable MS-DOS operating system and classic games directly on modern computer hardware without any emulation. This blast from the past ...