For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

As Microsoft introduces its newest operating system, we venture back 20 years in the CNET Vault to find our video coverage of its ancestor, Windows 95. Let new features like the recycle bin, MSN and ...

Windows 95 was officially launched 25 years ago yesterday and to mark the occasion former Microsoft engineer Rico Mariani has detailed the release in its historical context, explaining why it was the ...

The name “Windows 95” was revealed to the public only a short time before the operating system’s launch, which we were told was going to be a massive event. Through an insanely overwrought but ...

Some people may remember the joys of trying to boot Linux on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller, which was an absolute exercise in patience. In comparison [He Chunhui]’s Tiny386 emulator running on an ESP32 ...

If you remember when Windows 95 launched then you'll probably struggle to think of a product that has been that extensively publicized in one big push since. In the UK Microsoft paid huge sums of ...

From the Start menu and Taskbar to device autodetection and free, bundled Web browsers, here’s a brief history of how Windows 95 became the operating system that time never forgot In October of 2012, ...

For a lot of people, Windows 95 brings back some great memories. Microsoft's 21-year-old operating system has already been imported onto some unlikely devices, including the Nintendo 3DS and an ...

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 ...

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’re feeling a little bit of nostalgia for Microsoft’s beloved Windows 95 operating system, there’s finally an app for that. What’s old is now a novelty again, and Slack developer Felix Rieseberg ...

TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.