Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Windows 95, the operating system that revolutionized personal computing and introduced ...

Microsoft feared too many machines would end up bricked Microsoft vet Raymond Chen first told the story of HLT and Windows 95 ...

Windows 95 officially released to the public on August 24 1995, setting the standard for the future of the tech giant’s ...

Still, Windows 95 stands out, he says, because of how easy it made computing for everyone. Many of its foundational concepts, such as the Start menu and taskbar, are still core parts of Windows today.

Whaddaya mean you don't recognise it? It's the Windows 95 start-up sound, and it's recently been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings.

Whenever you opened a program or file in Windows 95, a rectangular Taskbar icon would appear, which you could click on to immediately call that window to the front.

Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games Pickup trucks full of software boxes, Win95VersionLie, and other tricks.

Windows 95, 98, and other decrepit versions can grab online updates again Retro-computing fans can download the final updates released for '90s-era OSes.

"Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95.

Windows 95 represented a dramatically different way to interact with a PC, by encompassing the majority of programs and tasks inside a graphical user interface (GUI).