If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. 20 years ago today, Microsoft launched Windows 95 and forever changed the way people ...

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 ...

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has settled once and for all the question of why the Windows 95 setup program went on a tour of GUIs before finally introducing the user to the concept of the Start ...

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 ...

First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project was initially called "Interface Manager." ...

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 ...