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.

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.

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 &#… ...

When you hear “PS2” and “Windows 95,” you probably think someone forgot a slash and are talking about peripherals, but no — this hack is very much about the Sony PlayStation 2, the best ...

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.

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.

Things were calm, though. Our Babbage’s had dedicated a full floor-to-ceiling shelf section to Windows 95—both the CD-ROM version and the crazy 13-disk floppy version with its funky DMF diskettes.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...