As of today , Windows 95 — the first of the “ innovative ” Microsoft OSes — is a fourth - hundred sometime . Happy birthday old friend .
We could , of track , take this chance to recount the myriad features of 95 that would become staple of Windowses to total : the vast graphic improvements over 3.1 , the offset button and undertaking bar , Indian file cutoff , plug - and - play detection of peripherals . Or we could rise lyrical about how much of my puerility spread on a 20 - dog pound CRT monitor lizard . Despite end support almost 20 year ago , Windows 95continues to persistout in the wild ( though we do n’t apprise turn tail it for anything other than peradventure a retro back PC . )
call off all that though . It ’s not a birthday political party without a vocal , and Windows 95 pass off to have one of the safe , composed by the uncomparable Brian Eno :
Bill Gates presenting Windows 95 on this day in 1995. According to Getty “the presentation, which included demonstrations of the software and a carnival, was attended by 500 journalists, 2000 guests, and 9000 Microsoft employees.”Photo: AFP/Stringer (Getty Images)
God that feel good to hear again .
Dear lecturer , may the sound of nostalgia bring you tranquility .
Correction : the “ bliss ” wallpaper was parentage for Windows XP , a thing which Windows 95 is not .
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