Saturday, January 26 2019

Windows briefly had a "Ship It!" button

In Windows 95 build 302 from 23rd December 1994, you won't find the Start button you'd expect. Not because it's gone, but because it's been renamed to "Ship It!".

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Saturday, February 3 2018

Switch to Windows 95

In November last year I wrote about the forgotten and obscure feature of early Windows 95 builds that lets you run Windows 3.1 in a window on Windows 95. Since then I was wondering if this would still work on the final build (950) of Windows 95, considering so much has changed since build 58s.

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Sunday, November 19 2017

Switch to Chicago

The recent (re)leak of Windows 95 build 90c sparked some new interest in these early builds, and a relatively obscure feature recieved its small share of attention: the ability to run Windows 3.1 in a window inside Chicago.

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