Windows 95 was in many ways a leap forward for personal computing, adding in a now very recognisable updated GUI that made the Windows operating system much more personable and easy to use.

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three ...

Windows 95 represented a dramatically different way to interact with a PC, by encompassing the majority of programs and tasks inside a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI was, in turn ...

The Windows 95 startup song is delightful enough ... introducing millions to the joys of a graphical user interface (GUI). It made computing much more palatable to new users and not just because ...

The 1990s are remembered as the start of a technological revolution and the beginning of the digital era with the recent birth of the internet and the mass adoption of personal home computers.

It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [Ms-Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival East 2025. They had no fewer than nine computers ...

While Microsoft was late to the GUI party by about three or four years ... you’re probably thinking of Windows 95. That’s because it was such a huge departure from previous versions of ...

Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 from Windows 95, say ... DOS into the visual world of the GUI, which had taken off with 1983 ...

TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.

It also added support for longer file names and new “plug and play” capability for installing hardware. Windows 95 sold 7 million copies in its first five weeks, becoming the world’s most popular ...