XDA Developers on MSN

One of Windows 11's coolest mods gets seriously powerful

Windhawk works through mods. And it has several of them for the taskbar, though they all have different purposes. And one of ...
How-To Geek on MSN

4 easy Windows desktop Christmas upgrades you can do in 5 minutes

Remix 3D Winterscapes is another festive Windows theme from Microsoft that boasts 14 3D snowy scenes. Lastly, there's the ...
GeekWire

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
PC Gamer

Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the ...

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Back in the day ...