Drought's MS Paint Mirror is inspired by the iconic interface from the Windows 95 version of Microsoft Paint. (Image credit: Drought) Paint is one of Microsoft's most iconic applications.

In the mid-1990s, Microsoft DOS dominated most PCs. Those who were a step ahead might’ve been using Windows 3.1, but even that was a superimposed user interface on top of MS-DOS. Windows was ...

So does the Library of Congress. This week, the Windows 95 chime joined Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” and the soundtrack to Minecraft in earning a place in the National Recording Registry.

Before Windows, we used and wrote about its predecessor, MS-DOS (Disk ... end of an era for DOS, which until then had been a separately available operating system. Windows 95 appeared on the ...

Even the startup sound came from the keyboard of Brian Eno. Though you could access MS-DOS, Windows 95 marked a clean break from the MS-DOS era, running in 32-bit mode. (Today, you can run Windows ...

Let us go through the history of Windows, versions, and delve into the things that helped shape the operating system to what it is right now. Coming from a text-based operating system, MS-DOS, Windows ...

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.

The Windows 3.1 runtime used in the final version of Windows 95 setup included everything required to "do graphics" under MS-DOS, Chen explained, and it was fully debugged with its own video ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building ...

Starting with simple text-based MS-DOS ... Windows 3.x. Enter the button «Start», the taskbar and file manager «Explorer». Support for 32-bit architecture and wide hardware compatibility. Access to ...

Writing The Old New Thing blog, he said Windows 95 setup was designed to upgrade systems from three possible starting points – MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows 95 itself. This necessity dictated ...