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

Windows 95 was a hack triggered by the failure of Windows NT 3.1 to come close enough to beating OS/2. So after a number of technical presentations of NT 3.1 Microsoft started the Chicago project.

It’s enough to turn off the parts of my brain that would normally despise the look of a big, gray, plastic box and transform ...

If you are running DOS or Windows 3.1, you'll do just fine without Windows 95. But it won't be easy to avoid. It will be possible to buy a computer loaded with Windows 3.1 for the foreseeable future.

When you hear “PS2” and “Windows 95,” you probably think someone forgot a slash and are talking about peripherals, but no — this hack is very much about the Sony PlayStation 2, the best ...

And that's just the beginning of what can only be labeled a Windows 95 cheese fest. Case in point, check out this official Windows 95 video guide, or 'cyber sitcom' as it was called back in the ...

I've been itching to build a sleeper gaming PC for years now, but Maingear just unveiled a pre-built rig that's drenched in ...

For Windows 95, the end is here. Microsoft has taken steps to ensure that Windows 95 will become an asterisk in terms of sales. One of Microsoft's most popular products among both consumers and ...

Windows 95 is, however, built for the hardware of the mid-1990s. Compatibility with disk controllers, video cards, and other essential devices is already essentially non-existent.

Windows 95 improved networking and added long file names and Plug and Play, the latter a welcome relief for users. Memory limitations, plaguing users in Windows 3.1, were greatly diminished.

In a surprising and ambitious feat of retro computing, a tech enthusiast has managed to run Windows 95 on a PlayStation 2, the iconic console that once dominated the gaming world. While the project ...