That’s because, according to Brooks, the tools needed to extract a bitmap file from an NE (new executable file format) didn’t exist when Windows 1.0 was released.

Microsoft “re-released” Windows 1.0 this week as part of a partnership with that Stranger Things show I have yet to binge on Netflix. While it’s fre ...

Microsoft Resurrects Windows 1.0 (Sort Of) In another example of "everything old is new again," you can now recapture that old-school Microsoft feeling without even a single floppy disk drive.