Published Jun 6, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT

João has been covering the tech world for over 7 years, with a heavy focus on laptops and the Windows ecosystem. I also love all things tech and videogames, especially Nintendo, which he's always happy to talk about.

Prior to joining XDA in 2021, he worked at Neowin: https://www.neowin.net/news/poster/jo%C3%A3o-carrasqueira/

When you get used to the way things work in the modern day, it can be easy to forget the work and time it took to get here. We're all accustomed to certain paradigms when using a computer nowadays, like the desktop icons, taskbar, and Start menu (or equivalent), but those things weren't always a part of Windows.

Enter the Virtual OS Museum , a project to preserve versions of numerous versions of operating systems in history, including some very old Windows releases up to early versions of Windows Longhorn (the precursor to Vista).…