Last month marked 30 years since Microsoft launched Windows 95 on August 24, 1995. Surprisingly, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which oversees civil aviation across the United States, ...

It’s something of a shock to be reminded that Microsoft’s Windows 95 is now 30 years old — but the PC operating system that brought 32-bit computing to the masses and left behind a graphical interface ...

Computing history: Raymond Chen is once again reminding us that back when Windows 95 ruled the software world, coding was a completely different beast. The Win9x user interface eventually made its way ...

In the mid-1990s, personal computers were still something many people found hard to understand. Microsoft released Windows 95 to simplify computing and bring it to more homes and workplaces. What ...

Retro Potato: Raymond Chen is once again sharing an intriguing behind-the-scenes story about the making of Windows 95. It turns out that building the setup process for the consumer-oriented operating ...

Novell has lost an appeal in a case against Microsoft which deals with Microsoft’s alleged predatory behavior towards the WordPerfect productivity suite back in the 1990s. This case was notorious for ...

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On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...