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Classic Mode - a trip back to the 90s for your modern PC, courtesy of a pile of apps including Stardock WindowBlinds and ...

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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.

A similar experiment was done by a YouTuber MattKC but on a much grander scale where he embarked on a mission to resurrect “thousands of apps” for Windows 95, which was released 28 years ago.

Windows 95 became popular very quickly. 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 ...

Introduced during the reign of Windows 3.1 and two years before Windows 95, it used the same Program Manager user interface as Windows 3.1, but provided greater stability. In 1996, Windows NT 4.0 ...

On the second half of July 2024, one of the biggest Windows outages hit enterprises and businesses worldwide as a consequence of a botched CrowdStrike Falcon update. The cybersecurity firm ...

However, one of his most notable achievements was the porting of Doom from MS-DOS to Windows 95. At the time, subsequent games like Quake and Duke Nukem 3D were still on the horizon, slated for ...