Microsoft designed a masterpiece right when the PC world needed it most. In the age of AI and dark patterns, it‘s grown only ...

Two decades ago, Windows 95 was released. We take a look back at some of the most notable features of the popular operating system and its influence on later versions of Windows.

First introduced with Windows 95, the Start button has gone through several changes, but it’s a nice connection to the past. But it looks like that may be going away, as well.

The Start button and menu were introduced with Windows 95 over 15 years ago, and it appears Microsoft will scrap both of them once Windows 8 is released later this year.

The Windows logo button handles window and application management, ... Windows NT 4.0 wasn't intended for general consumer use, but it did pick up Windows 95's Start menu.

This week marked the silver jubilee year of Windows 95 – the OS version which introduced the iconic “Start” button. Microsoft Windows continues to be a prominent name in personal computing ...

The Verge logo. The Verge logo. Tech; ... Start me up. Windows 95 Back in 1995, ... The menu itself became the default way to launch apps from a simple click of the Start button.

Earlier we had a hack that put Counter-Strike on Android Wear, and today some maniac has installed Windows 95 on his Apple Watch. At last it'll do something worthwhile! That is, of course, if you ...

That Start button has been in every version of the OS ever since — except for a brief absence in Windows 8, about which users complained so much that the feature was restored in the just ...