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A Look at the Windows Start Button

The Start button is more than just an icon in the corner of your screen. Since its debut in Windows 95, it has become a cultural touchstone, a recognizable symbol that even non-technical people can identify at a glance.

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Windows Easter Eggs

Long before Windows became the polished and commercially dominant system we know today, developers were seeding easter eggs in various DOS-based and early graphical environments.

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A Brief History of Windows Malware

The early 2000s soon introduced a more ruthless wave of Windows-targeting malware. Worms like Sasser (2004) and Mydoom (2004) took advantage of weaknesses in Microsoft’s Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and email vulnerabilities, respectively, to spread automatically

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