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 ...

In Windows, starting with Windows 95 and ending with Windows 7, the Start menu is a launching pad for all the applications and control panels in the computer. Application installation programs ...

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 ...

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

And given that the new operating system prominently featured a new ‘Start’ menu in its bottom left ... Thus Eno was commissioned to give Windows 95 ‘a voice’ and ‘personality’.

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 ...