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 ...

Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots up an old computer so he can play around with Windows 95 again. Baca has made a hobby of assembling old PCs with new-in-box vintage parts, ...

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 ...

What just happened? Jokingly referred to as "Plug and Pray" due to its notorious unreliability, the Plug and Play standard was nonetheless a pivotal advancement in simplifying hardware and peripheral ...

A web‑based emulator lets you boot Windows 95 in your browser, complete with Solitaire and Paint — but it’s riddled with bugs and potential security risks. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

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 ...

On the desktop, most people use the official HTML and JavaScript-based client for Discord in either a browser or a still-smells-like-a-browser Electron package. Yet what if there was a way to use a ...

Click to open image viewer. Software on CD by Microsoft, Works 4.0 & Bookshelf '95 for Windows 95: Final Release; cd in case. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. IIIF provides ...

Last month, we reported on an interesting experiment which demonstrated the excellent backward compatibility of Windows with the help of Office. A similar experiment was done by a YouTuber MattKC but ...

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, ...