1995: Windows 95 is released. While it wasn't Microsoft's first operating system based on a graphical user interface, Windows 95 represented the biggest step away from the far less user-friendly ...

So should we rush out the front door with $90 clutched in our hot little hands and snap up an early copy of Windows 95, or wait and get it later? Those are your two choices if you dwell on the PC side ...

If the comeback of OS/2 (with Warp) is explained by the late arrival of Windows 95 (the next version of Microsoft Windows) the question arises: What’s up at Microsoft Corp.? You’ll get one of two ...

A year ago Windows 95 was known as Chicago and expected late in 1994. Since then a combination of curiosity, speculation, publicity and delay has made this operating system the cynosure of the ...

Microsoft has officially discontinued WordPad, the primary word processor bundled with each Windows version since 1995. The tech giant will not include WordPad in Windows 11 version 24H2, which began ...

Windows 10 is already shaping up to be a big launch for Microsoft, but it’s always going to be hard to live up to the aura that surrounds one of the biggest days in the company’s history: August 24, ...

How about a hefty dose of nostalgia? On this day in 1995, 30 years ago today, Microsoft released the operating system known as Windows 95. The company had released operating systems and various ...

Our look at the hallmarks of pop culture during the midpoint of the ’90s continues as we pick up with summer of 1995 and everything that followed. Part one ran yesterday. The early ’90s saw the media ...