It’s something of a shock to be reminded that Microsoft’s Windows 95 is now 30 years old — but the PC operating system that brought 32-bit computing to the masses and left behind a graphical interface ...

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, ...

Though it was often cloaked by a wonderful blue sky full of fluffy clouds, the absolutely hideous puke-green-not-quite-teal color used by Windows 95 for its default background has long baffled me. I ...

In 1995, Microsoft released the first iteration of what would become the Windows 9x series of home operating systems, the aptly named Windows 95. Windows had already been a prominent player in the ...

If you have any interest in retro-computing, you know it can be difficult to round up the last official bug fixes and updates available for early Internet-era versions of Windows like 95, 98, and NT 4 ...

Windows 11 still has ancient icons buried deep within They're languishing in obscure system files A Microsoft blog post highlighted a collection from the Windows 95 era in a DLL file If you thought ...