Thirty years is a long time for any feature to be around, so let's look at how the Start menu has evolved over the years. Windows 95: The birth of the Start menu On August 24, 1995, Microsoft ...

A former Microsoft employee narrates how he wrote the Start menu for Windows 95. Windows 11's Start menu has received considerable backlash from users due to its flawed design and redundancy.

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. They were so popular with users that when ...

New entrants are added “based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage” ...

it added a completely redesigned user interface featuring the Start menu and Taskbar. The Windows 3.1 interface (Program Manager and File Manager) was also included as an option. Windows 95 became ...

Tracks added to the list are judged to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress, ...

When Windows 95 came out twenty years ago, its headlining feature was the new Start menu, giving easy access to programs and documents. The official theme song for the Windows 95 launch was even ...

with far fewer blinking prompts and obtuse menu systems. So, if you're a Windows user today you owe something both to Windows 95 and that start-up sound. To me, it was the sound of adventures ...