Returning to the present and Windows 10, the spiritual if not codebase descendant of Windows 95, has a Start menu and a task bar that will be visibly familiar to a user from 25 years before.

It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [Ms-Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival East 2025. They had no fewer than nine computers &#… ...

Windows 95 is Microsoft's coup de grace, the closest it has ever come to building a highly intuitive computer interface—one that's inviting, simple and clear.

Good times. Windows 95 was not the best operating system Microsoft ever released—many people would apply that designation to Windows XP—but it was certainly one of the most important iterations.

The legacy of Windows 95 can be seen in Microsoft's balance sheets. The OS jump-started years of growing revenue and profits for Microsoft and introduced computing to millions.

Windows 95 is, however, built for the hardware of the mid-1990s. Compatibility with disk controllers, video cards, and other essential devices is already essentially non-existent.

Windows 95 improved networking and added long file names and Plug and Play, the latter a welcome relief for users. Memory limitations, plaguing users in Windows 3.1, were greatly diminished.

Windows 95 turns 20: 9.5 surprising facts including Friends stars, the Rolling Stones and 13 floppy disks On its 20th anniversary, here's a few things you didn't know about Windows 95.

Dan Church was a young boy, just 6 or 7 years old, when he first discovered the game “Hover” on the Windows 95 CD-ROM. A combination of capture the flag and bumper cars, the program was his ...

Gallery: Windows 95 - 15 years later A whole different cast of characters were in charge of Windows and the newly-launched Internet Explorer 1.0 at the time.

Twenty years before it launched Windows 10 -- in a very different time and place -- Microsoft launched Windows 95. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor Aug. 24, 2015 at 5:05 a.m. PT ...