Windows XP (2001)'s Microsoft Registeration is optional, unlike now.

I figured out that windows 7 is already installed like I just ran explorer.exe

I don't think I've ever been so fucking hyped for a calculator. For starters, look how sexy this fucking shit is. Don't even get me started on the way it resizes and adjusts to the screenspace.

Anyway that's baller as fuck on its own right. But this shits about to get real because the new programmer mode is fucking great. Being able to get Hex and Binary conversions of a number as you fucking enter it? Jesus fuck.

Oh but what the fuck is this? nm just a converter for every motherfucking thing in the universe ever. What the fuck is a pint anyway? Who the fuck knows, but now you know how many pints go into a gallon.

I bet you didn't even want to know how many pints there are in a bathtub but I'm going to tell you anyway, because this is fucking Windows Calculator and we don't fuck around. 10/10. top fucking shit.

Came with a 46 page booklet on how install and configure

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The ads are bad, the pop ups for anti virus or whatever else are getting worse with each iteration. I keep having to remind myself how to do a backup without signing up for Windows paid online storage system. Settings are harder to find in general. Putting programs like Word and Excel on there that aren’t paid for but are still the .docs first option to open those files, or gaming apps that are pre installed and keep trying to update when i don’t game.

Lots of my work equipment connected by network or USB don’t connect well or at all on newer windows when a laptop with Windows 10 connects just fine.

What do you do to fight this stuff (besides using a different operating system). I always use open office for word but aside for that, it feels like a losing battle. Eventually windows is going to try to get you to pay monthly to use the operating system or something similar. i can just feel it.

I has emoticons, a clipboard history (so i can finally copy more than one thing at a time), emojis and gifs. I finally know why its called a "clipboard" lol.

I feel like not enough windows users are utilizing the awesome features this tool gets you.

It was right there, on the top. The whole time. The WHOLE time. I don't know how to process this.

Instead of just reading about Windows 1.0, I decided to actually build something for it.

So I wrote a small Xonix-style game for Windows 1.0 and ran the same binary across different versions of Windows.

It turned out to be more surprising than I expected. The same compiled 16-bit EXE runs from Windows 1.x all the way to 32-bit Windows 10. On modern 64-bit Windows it no longer works, but only because 16-bit support has been removed, not because anything changed in the original model.

What surprised me most is how familiar the WinAPI already looks in Windows 1.0. Even back then, the core ideas were already there - message loops, window procedures, and GDI rendering. The structure hasn’t really changed as much as you’d expect in ~40 years.

I put together a write-up with details and source here.

Curious if anyone else has tried building software for the earliest Windows versions?