It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based GUI and a 32-bit operating system.

First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project was initially called "Interface Manager." This name reflected its primary purpose as a graphical ...

The Start menu and the Taskbar made their respective debuts, and for the first time, a Windows operating system didn't rely ...

Microsoft today released the first-ever Windows 11 ISO images, letting users download the images and clean install the OS on dedicated test systems or virtual machines. Up until now, users have ...

Unsurprisingly, the first to test out the OS will be Windows Insiders, as the firm noted that the first builds will roll out this week. As promised, the company has released Windows 11 build 22000 ...

Authored by Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, Cello was first released as shareware in June 1993 as the first and only web browser available at the time for ...

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