For those who were around and used a PC back in the 1990s, you'll undoubtedly remember the hype surrounding the release of Microsoft's groundbreaking operating system, Windows 95. It was a strange ...

Recently I wondered if I could download Steam on to my Mum's far from sprightly desktop (I'm trying to offer her a PC Gaming education). Unfortunately, it turns out my Mum has held on to an HP Pro ...

Windows 95 was an amazing operating system that would forever transform the world of home computing, setting the standard for user interaction on a desktop and quite possibly was the OS which had the ...

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has answered the question of why Microsoft insisted on running up a miniature Windows 3.1 rather than a diminutive Windows 95 to install the full-fat version of ...

Windows 95 was officially launched 25 years ago yesterday and to mark the occasion former Microsoft engineer Rico Mariani has detailed the release in its historical context, explaining why it was the ...

What just happened? Happy Birthday to Windows 95, Microsoft's first, extremely successful foray into the world of 32-bit consumer operating systems. The company released the original retail edition of ...

Like a lot of people who cover technology I got my start in the IT world and became incredibly critical of it. In the 90s it was fairly terrible: Most workers had to be trained on how to use a ...

Exactly twenty years ago Monday, Microsoft launched a new version of its desktop operating system that would end up in the hands of millions as PCs dominated Macs and other, lesser brands in the late ...

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 ...

The old is new again as Microsoft's classic OS Windows 95 is apparently capable of running on a New Nintendo 3DS. GBATemp.net user shutterbug2000 successfully got Windows 95 to boot up on Nintendo's ...