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. Screenshots of a near ...

Microsoft added a lot of features to Windows 95, but the biggest was a new Start button, menu, and task bar that made it a lot easier to discover applications and navigate the operating system.

The Start menu in NT is largely the same as it is in 95, but by default ... were combined. Text labels were removed, and individual app windows no longer got their own button on the taskbar.

Remember Windows 95? I mean, how could you not? Oh, you’re under 30? Yeah, then you probably don’t remember Windows 95. Its launch was a glorious day, it stood for the rise of graphical ...

A former Microsoft employee narrates how he wrote the Start ... text was also an issue since, at the time, you couldn't draw sideways text. While it was impossible on Windows 95, Windows NT ...

An interesting fact is that the Taskbar (and Start button) also arrived alongside ... Also, it had a left-hand sidebar that contained the "Windows 95" text. The "Programs" folder provided a ...

The Start button was first introduced in Windows 95, and has been present in every version of Windows since. Now here's the real question ... does Microsoft intend to permanently remove the Start ...

You may have seen a lot of tutorials on how to change the Start Button Tooltip Text in Windows manually. But an average Windows enthusiasts find most of such tutorials difficult to follow ...

While current iterations of the Start button only feature the Windows logo, in the olden days, starting with Windows 95, it was a large, steel-colored button with the word "Start" proudly ...

If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a ... explanation of how the Windows 95 setup was three applications that would eventually lead to the Start Menu in Microsoft's ...

The menu-based list that began in Windows 95 and the tile-based interface introduced in Windows 8. Just click or tap on the Start button and you see both merged into one interface. Convenient.