I seem to recall the Windows 95/98 background being slightly different in 16-color VGA mode (a slightly lighter shade) than 256-color (or higher) modes, so I don't think it's part of the standard ...

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.

Windows 95 is running on Em-DOSBox, a version of DOSBox that can be compiled using Emscripten. This tool takes code generated from C/C++ and compiles it to JavaScript – the scripting language ...

To test Windows 95, a Microsoft manager drove a small lorry to a software shop and bought every programme available there. But in doing so, he overstretched the shop's cash register.

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 ...

"While Win 95 was a milestone product for Microsoft, Microsoft's market share in the mid-1990s was already at about 90 percent and the Mac was about 10 percent. But with Win 95, the Windows OS ...

You can now relive all your Windows 95 nostalgia through an app designed to run on your new Windows 10, MacOS, or Linux computer. Created by a Slack developer, the app allows you to run popular ...

Though it was often cloaked by a wonderful blue sky full of fluffy clouds, the absolutely hideous puke-green-not-quite-teal color used by Windows 95 for its default background has long baffled me.