While Microsoft has promised that GitHub will continue to operate independently and will remain an open platform, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that it would increase its focus on serving software developers via cloud services irrespective of whether they are coding for Microsoft Windows or not. At the time when Microsoft was busy announcing its acquisition, a developer named Alexander Prokhorov, who is also known on GitHub under the name Athari, made a mock-up of a GitHub page in the Windows 95 style and posted it on Twitter on June 4. 9X Dubbed “GitHub Windows Edition”, the style transforms the GitHub interface that looks clearly inspired from Windows 95 or 98. The project converts GitHub’s pages into a Windows 9x-like GUI (graphical user interface) and supports all modern browsers with buttons, tags, separators, groupings, edit boxes, list boxes, tooltips and windows. Further, focus rectangles, text selection styles and other elements adjusted where possible. While some icons changed into icons from Windows 9x, some UI were transformed, for instance, repository stats are displayed as a shell list box and various group boxes have been titled. The GUI can be used in combination with the usual browsers, says Prokhorov. However, the user style works best with Chrome and Firefox, used in combination with either the Stylus or Stylish extensions. Having said this, presently there are a couple of known issues, mainly:
Due to requirement of elements to have multiple borders, size of some controls like buttons has been changed. If GitHub uses pixel sizes for buttons, they may be cut by a few pixels.
Due to tooltips being children of controls, they change full control size, so focus borders may be displayed incorrectly.
If you wish to know more about how to install GitHub Windows Edition, click here. Source: GitHub
