When developing Windows 95, one manager bought every program available at a local software store—and overwhelmed the cash register. The switch from Windows 3.x to Windows 95 was a big step for ...

What just happened? Happy Birthday to Windows 95, Microsoft's first, extremely successful foray into the world of 32-bit consumer operating systems. The company released the original retail edition of ...

Micro-Soft: In an attempt to cater to a larger number of PC users, Windows 95 developers tried their hardest to keep existing software up and running in the new operating environment. But for some ...

Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots up an old computer so he can play around with Windows 95 again. Baca has made a hobby of assembling old PCs with new-in-box vintage parts, ...

Windows 95 was an amazing operating system that would forever transform the world of home computing, setting the standard for user interaction on a desktop and quite possibly was the OS which had the ...

If you have any interest in retro-computing, you know it can be difficult to round up the last official bug fixes and updates available for early Internet-era versions of Windows like 95, 98, and NT 4 ...

Porting modern software to old hardware that shouldn't be able to run it is a fun way for hackers to challenge themselves. You may have seen the headlines about the person who got Doom to run on a ...

Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for ...

Windows 95 was launched in, you guessed it, 1995. July 14, to be exact, meaning that it's the 30th anniversary of the much-beloved (it's still not just me, is it?) operating system this year. Save the ...