I’m a sucker for old-school operating systems running in ways that feel impossible and now there’s a way to run Windows 98 or a bunch of Linux distributions in ...

If Windows 1.01 is a little too, er, useless, you can also run Windows 3 and Mac OS System 7 in your browser using a JavaScript port of PCE (PC-Emulator). While it might seem impressive, emulating ...

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

Cutting corners: If you want to see for yourself what Windows 11 looks like without registering as a Windows Insider or reinstalling your operating system, there's a preview version of it you can try ...

On earlier versions of Windows, the best browser you can run today is clearly Google Chrome. But, what about Windows 10? There, it's a different story. With Windows 10, you have another choice: ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...