Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Windows 95, the operating system that revolutionized personal computing and introduced ...

In 1996, Microsoft celebrated the one-year anniversary of Windows 95’s release with the claim that it had shipped 40 million ...

If you thought Windows 95 was dead, think again. Apparently, the long outdated operating system is still in use on a farm ...

Put simply, it's a combination of the sensory overload of attending my first carnival-atmosphere-level tech launch event and ...

Windows 95 officially released to the public on August 24 1995, setting the standard for the future of the tech giant’s ...

Thirty years ago, Microsoft had strong competition and responded with advertising. But Windows 95 was also technically better ...

The Application Compatibility Toolkit (apcompat.exe) can either be found on the Windows 2000 CD in the Support folder, or an updated version for SP2 can be downloaded from Microsoft here.<P>Its ...

Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games Pickup trucks full of software boxes, Win95VersionLie, and other tricks.

This line of reasoning led [MattKC] recently to look at easy ways to port modern applications to Windows 95. In the video, the available options are ticked off, starting with straight Win32 API.

Windows 95 truly played its part in ushering in a new era for PC gamers, while also boosting PC hardware sales and driving the growth and adoption of 32-bit programs.

"Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95.

It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [Ms-Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival East 2025. They had no fewer than nine computers ...