Windows 95 was an amazing operating system that would forever transform the world of home computing, setting the standard for user interaction on a desktop and quite possibly was the OS which had the ...

There really was not any one killer app for 95. It was a combination of many things. The OS its self was a dream to use for that time. It had the best user interface for its time. It ran most older ...

A developer has labored long and hard to bring back Windows 95 as an app. You can install it on Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window ...

Take a trip down memory lane by loading up Windows 95 on your Mac. Play classic Solitaire and Minesweeper, and soak up the experience once enjoyed by nearly 70 percent of computer owners in the late ...

Windows 95 was certainly a breakthrough moment in operating system design, bringing so many of the things we take for granted today to PCs, such as the desktop and the Start button. This week, ...

Game systems (pre-Internet gaming), because of their limitations, can be used exactly the way they were used in their prime. They provide an excellent and easily accessible time capsule. You can even ...

Unless you got into Windows very recently, you are probably aware of the famous or rather infamous Y2K also referred to as the Millenium superbug. When the millennium (2000) approached, many thought ...

Because I thought I had discovered something nobody knew ...

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

Raymond Chen recently shared another interesting tidbit about the inner workings of Windows 95. The original 32-bit consumer operating system had a "secret" fast-restart feature, which ...