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Winux is a Linux distro Windows 11 lookalike with questionable value

With a history linked to controversial distros like LinuxFX and Wubuntu, Winux may not be the best choice for a secure, ...
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Why Apple iPhone 9 and Microsoft Windows 9 skipped: The Mystery Behind Number 9

Apple made a bold move in 2017 by skipping the iPhone 9 and jumping straight to the iPhone X. The decision was symbolic—the ...
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Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...

Millennium edition of Windows is 25 years old

On September 14, 2000, Microsoft released Windows ME, the last version of Windows based on the operating system dinosaur ...

Mr. Modem: Windows XP, like other good things, must come to an end

I know you’re probably sick of hearing from us XP-user cry babies, but if Microsoft was losing money on XP, why didn’t they just charge XP users and continue supporting it? Windows XP was one of ...