Basically, I had stumbled across an article titled “ The end of an era – Windows 3.x “. In summary, the article explained that on November 1 st 2008 Microsoft stopped allowing licenses for Windows for ...

Let's go back in time to an era of personal computing, where dial-up internet was cutting-edge and desktop monitors were enormous. Specifically, let's jump to April 6, 1992, the day Microsoft released ...

Windows 1 was a dismal failure, Windows 2 was mostly a total flop but did have some redeeming features, and Windows 3 was perhaps the greatest comeback story in the history of software at that time.

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