Opening the same jpeg in Paint versus Metro takes about 1/10th the time.

Yeah, but all you can do in Paint is draw Hitler mustaches on supermodels and junk.

The start button takes you from the Desktop right back to the Metro screen, which is what pisses everyone off in the first place.

So Microsoft will get a 30% cut from what used to be Netscape. How much farther will Mozilla grovel?

It only effected a small handful of people unlucky enough to have windows phones.

Now Microsofties (the only ones who actually have WP) can't surf YouTube at work.

Last time I used dosbox was so long ago that back then their April fools joke was that it could run Windows - complete with a fake screenshot. Amazing progress by the project if it's routine to run it now.

There was a /. article about some joker got Windows 3.1 to run on a phone under Android, sure as shit, I installed DOSBOX to an Android Mk802 PC-on-a-stick and got it to run Windows.

Indeed, Windows 3.11, being a DOS program is officially supported by DOSBOX now. Windows 95, being mostly a DOS program, is unofficially supported by DOSBOX.

Win 3.11 works great in DOSBOX under WIn 7, XP, Ubuntu, except it won't fly under Puppy Linux, because of mouse issues. Win 98 will install under VirtualBox but there's some display driver issues, it will default to 640 x 480 x 4. Better to run that raw, not virtualized. Win95 it's a case of "why bother?".

Windows has been quickly going downhill after version 3.11.

I run Win3.11 as a hobby on one of my boxes. There ain't no more BBS's out there, except I can get out to Seattle Community Network and King County Libraries with Terminal, at 19,200 baud, woo. I sure as hell ain't going to get an AOL or Netzero dial up account for a hobby. There's a lot of great Windows 3.1 CD-ROMs I get at thrift shops for no more than three dollars. Vetusware has everything. Excel 4.0 for my family budget. Word Perfect for my Great American Novel. There's nothing wrong with running old school.

Microsoft has become quite good at being last-to-market.

MS Recycle Bin 95 was Apple Lisa Wastebasket 82.

It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.

SpyDrive

The Y chromosome is a li'l runt and they think it won't even be there anymore in a hunnert thousand years or so.

It's no big deal now when Mr. Obama is doing it, but when Jeb Bush is doing the same thing in 2017 only then will the media get all upset.

"Sweep the sand out of the garage? But Uncle Owen, I was going to Toshi Station to hang out with Koo Stark!"

A million years from now lawyers for SCO will claim the quartz crystal contains their precious proprietary code from Unix and demand a 700 credit per seat license from the archaologists plus their signature on a non-disclosure agreement.

This is also about the time most PC compatible computers no longer came with Basic, and if you could get a copy of basic, in no longer wrote to specific memory addresses or i/o ports.

You mean GW-Basic, running in DOS where 640 K was enough for everybody, couldn't PEEK and POKE addresses in that fat juicy 16 meg pile of RAM Windows 3.1 was hogging all to itself in Extended Memory? DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!