If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility? Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated.

For example, Command Prompt commands let you copy data to a different folder, format an entire disk, back up your files, send ...

Starting in the 1990s, Windows NT ushered in a new architecture that has been carried forward more or less intact ever since. Current client version of Windows. Windows is a 64-bit OS and runs ...

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 ...

It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system ... standards of today and the uneasy marriage of 16-bit DOS underpinning a 32-bit Windows operating system was clunky ...

In Microsoft terms though its history goes back only as far as Windows 98, earlier MS operating systems remain off-limits. Neither piece of software is especially useful, and we can’t see a rush ...

It was envisioned as a graphical user interface (GUI) overlay for MS-DOS, which ran on IBM PCs and ... Until the release of Windows 95 about a decade later, the operating system was essentially ...