Microsoft designed a masterpiece right when the PC world needed it most. In the age of AI and dark patterns, it‘s grown only more resonant. Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots ...

It’s enough to turn off the parts of my brain that would normally despise the look of a big, gray, plastic box and transform ...

Bits and pieces of Microsoft’s sweeping aesthetic changes to Windows 10, codenamed Sun Valley, have dropped over the last few months. The OS is getting support for the Advanced Audio Codec (AAC ...

Ironically, while Windows 95’s welcome chime accompanied one of the most successful computers of all time, Eno never owned one. “I wrote it on a Mac,” he confessed to the BBC in 2011.

Returning to the present and Windows 10, the spiritual if not codebase descendant of Windows 95, has a Start menu and a task bar that will be visibly familiar to a user from 25 years before.

The reboot sound for Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system was composed by Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and producer Brian Eno. They're in pretty incredible company.

Back in August 2023, Windows 95 became 28 years old. Official support for Windows 95 ended in 2001, to be replaced by Windows 98, then Windows XP, then Windows Vista. (Oof.) We’ve previously ...

Version 3.1 of the Windows Update Restored site—the only one currently functioning, though support for others is planned—supports Windows 95, both editions of Windows 98, NT 4.0, ME, and some ...

A former Microsoft executive shared images of the first ever copy of Windows 95, fresh out of the production line. The legacy operating system was released to manufacturing 28 years ago this month.

Windows 95 merged MS-DOS and Windows apps, upgraded APIs from 16 to 32-bit, and was hyper-marketed. A popular app like SimCity, which sold more than 5 million copies, needed to work without a hitch.

Still, Windows 95 stands out, he says, because of how easy it made computing for everyone. Many of its foundational concepts, such as the Start menu and taskbar, are still core parts of Windows today.