The Windows That Never Was | TimeMachiner // Presented by Aaron Crocco
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That’s not a typo. Windows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended.

I only learned about this a few months ago. To me, this was an incredibly fascinating discovery and wanted to write about & share it.

“The Windows That Never Was”

  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is a very good article, but this part peeved me on a petty level (as well as explaining why there’s precious little in the way of screenshots):

    While I can’t find any uploads that are set to run on their website in a virtual computing session, the files are available to download if you felt like spinning up a piece of computing history.

    The opportunity to do a little investigative journalism is right there, and the blog author didn’t take it

    • macstainless@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Hi, author here 👋. Thanks for the feedback. If the Internet Archive had it on their own VM to run, I would’ve tried playing with it and taken some screenshots. However, I simply did not have the time to get it running locally on my machine, especially because I’m all Mac and Virtual Box doesn’t run on M-series hardware.

      I agree it’s a missed opportunity, but I chose to go a little bit of an easier route.

      Thanks for reading and enjoying the other 99% of the article. 😉