Twenty-five years ago today: Microsoft launched Windows 95

[hazelnut]

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Twenty-five years ago today: Microsoft launched Windows 95
On August 24, 1995, Microsoft held what's likely to go down in history as its biggest Windows launch in history with Windows 95.

 

https://www.zdnet.com/article/twenty-five-years-ago-today-microsoft-launched-windows-95/

[Andavari]

I remember a friend getting Win95 and inviting me over to play I believe the game was MechWarrior at the time.

I don't miss the Win9x era VxD bugs, and remember on Win98 making a VxD bug fix script that would re-copy the good/working and not corrupted VxD files back into the OS - made having to reinstall the Win98 OS fresh every few months (sometimes every 6 months) for that specific error a thing of the past.

Edited August 24, 2020 by Andavari

[trium]

i was a MS-Dos-Fan :-) and dont like w95 at the beginning

i played games like dune, dune 2,  lands of lore, command & conquer, star trek - sttng etc. and all games works better in dos-environment.

also as andavari i have installed w98se x-times - nice practise :-) xp too

[nukecad]

I still have a box running 98SE, and still use it a couple of times a year.

I keep it because I have the full version of AutoCAD 2000i on it. - You can't buy Autocad outright anymore and a monthly (£234) or yearly (£1,890) subscription costs way too much for occasional use.

[Andavari]

On 24/08/2020 at 16:33, nukecad said:

I still have a box running 98SE, and still use it a couple of times a year.

The only reason I still have an old Dell that runs Win98 (should've bought the 98SE upgrade disc back then) is to play the Descent games that never worked in later versions of Windows.

[nukecad]

I've got an old 'Lemmings' CD for Win95 - I tried it for a laugh and it still runs perfectly  on Win10.

[Andavari]

Original retail Descent games on CD don't work on Win10, I tried last month and got the failure I was expecting.

[trium]

i think the 64 bit systems are a problem for. an emulator can help but the original-os with the hardware from the time is the best.