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 ...

A rtist and musician Brian Eno — who also composed the iconic Windows 95 operating system startup chime — called on Microsoft ...

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 ...

the aptly named Windows 95. Windows had already been a prominent player in the home computing scene for a good few years prior to this with its release of Windows 3.0 and its subsequent updates ...

Selling and facilitating advanced AI and cloud services to a government engaged in systematic ethnic cleansing is not ...

Back in August 2023, Windows 95 became 28 years old. Official support for Windows 95 ended in 2001, to be replaced by Windows 98, then Windows XP, then Windows Vista. (Oof.) We’ve previously ...

Three decades after composing the iconic Windows 95 startup jingle, Brian Eno has published an open letter to Microsoft, calling out the company for selling technology to Israel amid the country’s ...

The developer inquired about the three distinct user interfaces used during the Windows 95 setup process, which transitioned from DOS to Windows 3.x, and finally to the classic Win9x GUI.

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 ...

Although often focused on music, spoken word, and field recordings, the 2025 inductees include one of the most iconic sounds in digital history: the Windows 95 “Reboot Chime.” In August 1995 ...

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.

As spotted by German tech site WinFuture (via Neowin), Oerg866 on X posted to reveal that Windows 95 and 98 had a ‘hard-coded 8 second delay’ when using the ‘Add New Hardware’ wizard in ...