Windows 95 20th Anniversary
No I'm not talking about some hackjob from Russia.
It's approaching the 20th anniversary for Windows 95's release and wonder if it will get any attention on the day or turn out to be a fizzer.
Despite being only 10 years old at the time, I still recall the "Start Me Up" commercials on TV and everyone being generally excited about it.
It's approaching the 20th anniversary for Windows 95's release and wonder if it will get any attention on the day or turn out to be a fizzer.
Despite being only 10 years old at the time, I still recall the "Start Me Up" commercials on TV and everyone being generally excited about it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AJM6HMYjM
And this was all available on a common desktop OS without needing some expensive workstation or server OS instead.
lol!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nbr_OLqTOo
And this says it all:
Better fire up a Win95 VM for the good old times (it was the first OS I ever used).
@thinkpadman: Yeah, that pic isn't surprising. Nowadays, there's digital distribution *cough*moreadvancedpiracy*cough* and I don't think we've seen as drastic an OS improvement than the 3.1 -> 95 transition nor the level of technological popularization Win95 brought. It did simplify computers for the common Joe, but today's level of simplification is just too much.
Win 3.x came out in 92 and instead of calling the next version Windows 4 they gave it the year like name to go with the huge improvements. Come to think of it when Win98 came out much people didn't care. I myself didn't care and was forced to run Win98FE then dual booted Win95 until I was able to score a copy of NT 5 beta 2 and from there went to Win2k when it was released. However, when WinME came out people hated WindowsME with a passion and people even fought stores to get refunds. OEM computer companies released Win2k pro on some home desktops and stores offered to install Win98 or sell you a system with a blank drive. When Vista came out I had bought a HP laptop from Circuit City. I had to fight Circuit City to sell me a laptop with a empty hard drive because like hell I wanted to use bug infested Vista. They offered this with WinME and it was listed in their policy still on opting out on a pre-installed OS on a system. In the end a $500.00 laptop turned into a $398.00 laptop. Windows 7 came out and it was some what of a breath of fresh air but since MS wanted to be nice and let people stick with XP it never really caught on and before you know it Windows 8 came out and a lot of people didn't like and still don't like the "start screen".
In a nutshell MS has screwed up too many times since Win95 and even pissed off a lot of developers like Valve, id and Bethesda. Even pissed off a lot of end users such as myself. I'll give MS another five or eight years before their pretty much finished and are clinging to their phone/tablet market. This is also why their release party for Windows 8 didn't go well. We're over due for something new.
My Computer, Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer these was Revolutionary at time
But yea, after 95 they didn't really add anything that people so desperately needed, unless you count XP switching people to the more stable NT line.
Windows 8 tried to be 95, but spectacularly failed to do anything that moved computing forward in the way 95 shook the industry.
Truly one of a kind. I will have to give it a run sometime.
Windows 8 wasn't trying to be 95. It was trying to be a unifying OS, combining mobile, game console, laptops, tablets, desktops, etc. OS's into one... all running the same interface with the ability to run the same applications.
The problem is that the same interface doesn't work on every device...