Check out our final edition of Microsoft Weekly for 2022, covering a quieter period with some nostalgia, an interesting UI change for Notepad, and some updates to first- and third-party Windows apps.

The Microsoft Network, or MSN, was packaged with Windows 95 and provided users with access to email, chat rooms, and the ability to connect to websites using a home phone line via dial-up internet.

Microsoft dumped Teams Chat, and the hardware issues have gone away. Windows 11’s Start menu was a step back. ... later versions did. Windows 95 also introduced the concept of “plug and play.” ...

In brief: It's now possible to run a barebones version of Discord on legacy Microsoft operating systems including Windows 98 (and even Windows 95, if you're willing to jump through a few extra hoops).

WordPad, a Windows rich editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will ...

A former Microsoft employee narrates how he wrote the Start menu for Windows 95. Windows 11's Start menu has received considerable backlash from users due to its flawed design and redundancy.