Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, ...
The Register on MSN

Legacy update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads

Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras Legacy Update was already extremely useful if ...

Steam is running on Windows 7 again, thanks to a fan-made backport

Valve ended official support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.x in the Steam client just a year ago, forcing gamers clinging to ...

Windows 3.1's ugliest color scheme wasn’t a joke after all

Windows 3.1's Hot Dog Stand color scheme wasn't a joke, but "a garish choice, in case somebody out there liked ugly bright ...
IEEE

API Fuzz Testing for Security of Libraries in Windows Systems: From Faults To Vulnerabilites

Abstract: Application programming interface (API) fuzz testing is used to insert unexpected data into the parameters of functions and to monitor for resulting program errors or exceptions in order to ...
GitHub

PAE patch for Windows 2K/XP - 10

This patch allows you to use more than 3/4GB of RAM on an x86 Windows system. Based on original work by Wen Jia Liu (wj32). Also, patch allows you to bypass Windows 8 CPU feature checks (used reversed ...