Enthusiast demos installing Alpine Linux with the Windows Installer
Late last month, developer Naman Sood posted a screenshot of Alpine Linux inside a Windows installer, and followed it with a semi-satirical […]
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Microsoft confirms recent Windows security update breaks VPNs, no fix yet
Bad news for those of us quick to click the “update” button: Microsoft has confirmed that the suite of April security updates […]
Museum criticizes Microsoft for ‘mutilated’ MS-DOS 4 open source release — posting on ‘stupid’ git blamed for the buggy blunder
On April 4, Microsoft released its landmark 1986 MS-DOS 4 operating system’s source code on GitHub, listed alongside its other DOS source […]
Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements
With Windows 11 24H2 all geared up to have AI-intensive applications, Microsoft has added a code that will warn you if your […]
Tiny11 gets a major update, can now be used to trim down any Windows 11 image
Tiny11 developer NTDEV announced on X (Twitter) that Tiny11 builder has been completely overhauled, featuring more flexibility than ever before. The newly […]
Adding ZIP file support to Windows 30 years ago almost got the creator of Task Manager fired
While ZIP file support has long been a commonplace feature of Windows and other operating systems, this wasn’t always the case. Once […]
Spectra Cube heralds new 75,000 TB storage library — tape solution for cloud providers is optimized for ease of use and versatility
Earlier this week Spectra Logic announced the Spectra Cube, a modern tape storage library focused on ease of use and maintenance while […]
How to manage Linux network connections via the terminal
We take graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for granted. They generally “just work” and we can largely go about our business without even […]
Thousands of apps ported back to Windows 95 twenty-eight years later — .NET Framework port enables backward compatibility for modern software
YouTuber MattKC, in his own words, ported “thousands of apps” to Windows 95 by painstakingly porting Windows 98’s most prominent feature, the […]
Ex-Windows developer calls Windows 11 Start menu performance ‘comically bad,’ even with a Core i9 and 128GB of RAM
Andy Young, a former Microsoft Windows developer, has taken to social media to complain about the performance issues he’s been experiencing in […]