Subsequent updates to Windows 95 also introduced new features before Windows 98 arrived three years later to improve things even more. Enjoy a brief look back at Windows 95 in the photos and ...

We’ve had something of an anniversary of late, and it’s one that will no doubt elicit a variety of reactions from our community. It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the ...

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 name "Windows 95" was revealed to the public only a short time before the operating system’s launch, which we were told was going to be a massive event. Through an insanely overwrought but ...

Check out some highlights of the launch 20 years ago. Jay Leno helped introduce Windows 95. "Welcome, Microsofties," Leno said, before he introduced Bill Gates. "I'm the host of 'The Tonight Show ...

Windows 95 also made things easier by supporting long file names (up to 250 characters, versus 11 characters previously), and implementing plug and play functionality before fetching custom-tuned ...

Before Windows 95, if you wanted to plug some kind of peripheral device into your home computer (besides a keyboard, which was often built into the system), you'd have to manually configure ...

A Windows hacker has found a never-before-seen Easter egg in the Windows 95 Internet Mail application, twenty-five years after the software was released. When developing software, it is not ...