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Forget Windows 11. These mad lads made Linux look like Windows XP!
PC users who want to relive the nostalgia of an older Windows interface can download the free Linux distribution Q4OS and ...
Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.
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Microsoft’s worst software flop was secretly lurking in Windows for years
Microsoft Bob makes a comeback… sort of With Windows XP’s release in 2001, the failed Microsoft Bob made a curious comeback. When Microsoft put Windows XP on installation CDs, they discovered ...
There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs
The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics ...
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From pixels to pinot: The Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like now
Windows XP shipped with a version measuring just 800 by 600 pixels. Anywho, Inside History has a series of follow up images taken from the same vantage point in 2006, 2020, 2024 and 2025.