Windows 95 released 17 years ago today

InsaneNutter

InsaneNutter

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Windows 95 was arguably make or break for Microsoft, and today we celebrate the date in which it was released seventeen years ago.

Seventeen years ago today Windows 95 was released to the public to major fanfare and success, this success also brought an antitrust case against Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer 4.0 with a later service release of Windows 95.

Windows 95 integrated Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products. It featured significant improvements over its predecessor, Windows 3.1, most notably in the graphical user interface (GUI) and in its relatively simplified "plug-n-play" features. There were also major changes made at lower levels of the operating system, such as moving from a mainly 16-bit architecture to a pre-emptively multitasked 32-bit architecture.

In the marketplace, Windows 95 was a major success, and shortly became the most popular desktop operating system. It was also suggested it had the effect of driving other major players (including OS/2) out of business, something which would later be used in court against Microsoft.

Depending on how you look at it, there were six major updates to Windows 95 between 1996 and 1997 which included both Service Packs and Service Releases, this excludes the Windows 95 Plus! Pack that was released on the same day as Windows 95.

Three years later Windows 98 succeeded it; but I think we can all agree that Windows 95 started a PC revolution, and for that we can be thankful --or not, depending on which way you swing.
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So did you have a Windows 95 powered computer? i didn't actually get my first PC until just after Windows 98 was released, so didnt really use Windows 95 all that much.
 
133mhz Pentium processor with 16mb of ram and a CD Rom drive running Windows 95, that was a pretty awesome PC back then.

Makes me feel really old remembering that, i was just a kid back then :(

I loved playing Age of Empires and The Settlers 2 on that PC (L)

You didn't need a Playstation back then if you had a PC, good times.
 
Pentium 2 @ 300mhz here, 128mb of ram (later upgraded to 512mb), 8gb hard drive, with a 20gb one added at a later date and a 4mb ATI Rage pro graphics card (later upgraded to a 32mb Geforce 2MX)

That ran Windows 98, ME and Finally XP for me, although it was slow by the time XP was released due to the 512mb ram it actually ran really well once it had loaded up.

That PC also still works today, its just not been powered on for 3+ years. The last time i used it was to Jtag my Xbox 360... (as it had an lpt port).
 
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