Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen is once again spilling the beans on how Windows 95 became one of the most influential ...
Learn how Windows 95 fixed system file conflicts using SYSBCKUP, preventing broken apps from overwriting critical files.
Windows 95 had a clever safeguard against sloppy installers that few would have known about.
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 ...
Developers kept breaking Windows 95 with bad installers, so Microsoft built a hidden backup trick that quietly reversed the ...
Retro Potato: Raymond Chen is once again sharing an intriguing behind-the-scenes story about the making of Windows 95. It turns out that building the setup process for the consumer-oriented operating ...
The 6-second start-up anthem joins “My Heart Will Go On” and the ‘Hamilton’ soundtrack as “one of the defining sounds of history.” ...
Although Windows 95 stole the show, Windows 3.0 was arguably the first version of Windows that more or less nailed the basic ...