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.

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

The US Library of Congress has added the Windows 95 boot sound to its National Recording Registry (NRR). That means the sound is now part of a list of recordings that are “culturally, historically, or ...

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 ...