These 4 open-source apps fixed Windows’ biggest problems

I’ve been using Windows since the very first release, and if you were around in those early days, you probably remember that the experience was a little rough in places. Windows was powerful and ambitious, but it also had some glaring gaps. Basic tasks that users needed every day like playing almost any video file, compressing archives properly, connecting to servers, or uploading files to a website often required tools that simply didn’t exist in the operating system itself.