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.

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 ...

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 ...

The good news is that the Windows 95 skin is available for both Windows ... Meanwhile, WingetUI, which is a third-party GUI utility tool for managing CLI package managers, received a significant ...

On this day in 1985, Microsoft unveiled its leap into the graphical user interface world with Windows 1.0, a piece of ...

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.

Who doesn't remember the Windows 95 startup sound? A real treat for the ears. Or the Minecraft soundtrack from the very first versions of the game? Even your parents have probably heard it.

In a nutshell: When trying to install Windows 95 for the first time, PC users were presented with a dull text interface and no graphics. DOS could indeed "do graphics," but the Windows team ...

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.