Windows 95 was an operating system released by Microsoft in August 1995 for personal computers. It introduced a graphical interface with the Start button, the taskbar and the desktop, which became a model for later versions of Windows. It supported long file names, plug and play hardware detection, and 32-bit applications, although it still ran on top of MS-DOS underneath. Its launch was accompanied by a large marketing campaign, including the use of the Rolling Stones song Start Me Up, and retail stores opened at midnight to sell it. Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer was added shortly afterwards in an add-on pack, and Windows 98 followed. The system brought graphical computing to a mass market.
Before and after
- 23 July 1995Discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp
- from 25 July 1995 to 29 July 1995Operation Summer '95
- from 4 August 1995 to 7 August 1995Operation Storm
- 16 August 1995Release of Internet Explorer
- 24 August 1995Creation of Windows 95
- from 30 August 1995 to 20 September 1995Operation Deliberate Force
- from 4 September 1995 to 18 June 2001Premiere of Xena: Warrior Princess
- from 8 September 1995 to 15 September 1995Operation Mistral 2
- from 18 September 1995 to 19 September 1995Operation Una
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
The era
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