Microsoft Windows 95

Developer: Microsoft

Publisher: Microsoft

Category: Operating System

Franchise: Windows

Architecture: DOS, 9x

Release Dates:

Retail Release:

OEM - July 14th, 1995

Retail - August 24th, 1995

Three million for 'start me up'? Surely they saw how much we spent on marketing in new york alone, right?

Uploaded: September 1st, 2024.

Updated: September 1st, 2024.

Development

Before Windows 95, Microsoft's Windows was nothing more than a clunky graphical shell, and a clunky one by design due to apple's bitterness over their PC compettitor doing better than them simply because they didnt confine a revolutionary product into a proprietary beige brick.

After their questionable licencing tactics with intel-compatible computers by bunding their graphical overlay with the majority of retail computers, they had more than enough money to spend even MORE money to make even MORE insurmountable loads of money. Microsoft's 'Chicago' project began in 1993 with it's main goals being 32-bit intergration with the DOS-based system code, a complete overhaul of their user interface, and their emphasis on expanding and cementing the ease of use for all users, trying to make computers more approachable and casual.

Apple did not hesitate to bog their compettitors down in lawsuits over the disputes of intelectual design elements like a start menu, 8+ character file names, and desktop drag'n'drop interfaces. Their accusations eventualy fell through, with their compettitor releasing Windows 95 in August 1995.

^ The Desktop of Windows 95, accessable here

Immediate Release and It's Perfect Timing

The technology advancements of personal computers in the 1990s alone were just waiting for Microsoft to update their aging 3.x line of releases. CD-ROMs were becoming more affordable (within reason), faster processors and a gradual incline of memory amongst the demands and genesis of multimedia capabilities did nothing but propell Windows 95 into the stratesphere. Their extnesive and unavoidable marketing already cemented their revolutionary product and when people could detect and install drivers for their accessories rid of the complications of DOS, it made it even more applicable for buisness and home uses.

This release was vastly more approachable and in doing so oversaw Apple's indirect decline into financial maliase during the mid 1990s, while serving as the de-facto death knell for IBM's resource-hungry OS/2 Warp 4 release a year later. Their timing in the evolution and emergence of multimedia capabilities of personal computers solidifed their rule and authority as the world's primary way to use computers in homes and offices, around the world from that day onwards.

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