August 24, 1995. Midnight. People were already lining up at CompUSA and BestBuy, as they were looking forward to getting a copy of the most anticipated software at that time. That software was Windows 95. Twenty-five years later, 95’s legacy, through its features, still lives on to this day, from the Start button, to other ambitious features of the said software.
… PC geeks were choosing between Pentium or 486 processors, IDE or SCSI hard drives, double-speed CD-ROMs, and Sound Blaster audio cards to experience the best of Windows 95. 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. Multitasking improvements and the graphical interface were a big leap from Windows 3.1 and the days of MS-DOS, but the interface was rather similar for Macintosh and OS/2 users at the time.
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I can remeber... i can even remember a chart, comrparing operatintg systems to chicken,...I think the line was "chicken 95, more colorful than chicken 3,1, but still tastes like chicken!",
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The hoopla was because Windows 3.1 (and before) was created with technology stolen from IBM. Microsoft was paying IBM all its OS profits. To stop that they created an OS that had nothing to do with 3.1 and then had to get everyone to accept it and stop buying 3.1.
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I remember. We Mac users wondered what all the hoopla was for.
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