Imagine a world without the Start button. No, I’m not talking about Windows 8. Dig deep into your memory, and you may recall a time when Windows 3.1 ruled the Earth. Twenty-five years ago this ...

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If starting in MS-DOS, the setup program would install and boot a minimal version of Windows 3.1 and then fire up a 16-bit Windows app to do much of the heavy lifting.

Windows 8.1, the OS that was pushed out to save Windows 8's bacon, had an identical boot screen and the changes it brought came inside the OS itself. Windows 10 (Image credit: Future) ...

Windows 8.1 didn’t reintroduce a Start menu, but it provided a bridge between the old menu and the new screen that Windows 8.0 didn’t have. Windows 10 The Start menu returns.

1,500 Windows 3.1 shareware apps are now free, ... clip art of coffee mugs and globes float around for no reason before users get to tinker around with the "brand-new" Start menu and other features.

As the Internet Archive's curator Jason Scott reflects, Windows 3.1 marked a turning point for desktop computing thanks to improvements Microsoft made as it played catch-up with Apple.

When Windows 95 came out twenty years ago, its headlining feature was the new Start menu, giving easy access to programs and documents. The official theme song for the Windows 95 launch was even ...

With iDOS and Windows 3.1, you can turn your iPad into a portable classic gaming machine. Benj has shown off several classic Windows titles running on his iPad, including games like Civilization II.