Raymond Chen, a Microsoft employee who took part in the Windows evolution for more than 30 years, is back with a new post on his well-known ...

A former Microsoft employee narrates how he wrote the Start menu for Windows 95. Windows 11's Start menu has received ...

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated. People wanted to know: Why not just do that whole thing in MS-DOS?… ...

The developer of Free95 says it will be a free Windows 95-compatible OS, but we suspect an elaborate prank. At best, maybe an ...

Windows 95 was by no means the first operating system ... of the world’s desktop computer users back then it would be the Microsoft Sound that heralded their first experience of a modern GUI ...

The problem Microsoft had to solve was that people could upgrade to Windows 95 from MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, or Windows 95 (this last option was for repairing corrupted systems).

Windows 95 became popular very quickly. Windows 95 improved networking and added long file names and Plug and Play, the latter a welcome relief for users. Memory limitations, plaguing users in ...

In that era, Doom's popularity was staggering. It was estimated that the game was installed on more PCs than Windows 95, Microsoft's latest operating system. Given its monumental success ...

The latest operating system from Microsoft—Windows 11 Pro—has been cut down in price by a crazy 95% (use code ‘UPGRADE’ .

Chen writes: Somehow, there is a claim of a 30-year mystery surrounding Microsoft ... how it differed from Windows 3.1 and thus the name NT or New Technology. Windows 95 also had its BSOD ...

Microsoft currently has around 1.5 billion Windows users, but it's safe to say the OS isn't as popular as it was back when Windows 95 hit the market and people lined up outside stores for hours ...