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 ...

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?… ...

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

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).

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 ...

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 ...