Microsoft’s Windows 95, with a comparatively intuitive user interface for the time, was released to desktop PC users on 24 August 1995. Twenty years after the release of the OS which brought about a revolution in the PC segment across the globe, Windows PCs have been dealt a blow from tablets and smartphones. These mobile computing devices offer the functionality of a computer and keep users connected to the internet all day.
Windows 95 introduced the now iconic “Start button” without which today’s Windows OSes are considered incomplete. Redmond’s Windows 8 which offered custom options for tablets and smartphones, but came without the button, was roundly criticised, forcing Microsoft to bring back a new start button in its more recent Windows 10.
With emphasis laid on graphics (such as a visually rich taskbar), and slowly eliminating DOS-style OSes, Windows 95 is still considered as the OS that let people properly use a computer. Microsoft’s PC fortunes also sky-rocketed with the OS.
Windows 95 was followed by even more popular OSes such as the Windows 98 and Windows XP. The latter is considered to be Microsoft’s most popular OS, and the operating platform continued to be supported officially by Microsoft for more than a decade.
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