(IDG) -- After months of waiting, an endless cycle of beta versions and "release candidates," ongoing legal wrangling, and inescapable hype, it all boils down to a simple question: Does upgrading to ...

Question.<P>Are there any games that run under Win95 that would run faster and more smoothly under Windows 98?<P>I ask this because I'm thinking of fdisking my hard disk and doing a clean install of ...

My first two thoughts: "Cool.". "Wait, why would anyone in his or right mind want to use Windows ME in 2023? I didn't even want to use it in 2001." Click to expand... Once they've gone to the trouble ...

TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.

Similar to Y2K22 and the far more popular Y2K superbugs, Y2K38 is also expected to wreak havoc in the computing world. Surprisingly, a Windows 95, 98, and 2000 era app is unaffected by it. Unless you ...

Crystal Dew World has released a major update to its retro Windows benchmarking tool. The updated CrystalMark Retro 2.0.0 was made available today, as freeware, and the major change here is that its ...

Microsoft says it's taking decisive action to cut off support for Windows '98 and ME because they pose a security risk....where have we heard that before? Microsoft took another turn with that little ...

AIDA64, a popular Windows diagnostic tool, received an update. In addition to adding support for AMD's upcoming RX 9000 GPUS, the update brings some bad news for Windows 95, 98, and Me users. If you ...

Back in August 2023, Windows 95 became 28 years old. Official support for Windows 95 ended in 2001, to be replaced by Windows 98, then Windows XP, then Windows Vista. (Oof.) We’ve previously ...

One of the news items that generated the most chatter among Hackaday editors this week was that ESA’s Mars Express mission is receiving a software update. And they’re updating the operating system ...

Windows 95 was an amazing operating system that would forever transform the world of home computing, setting the standard for user interaction on a desktop and quite possibly was the OS which had the ...