Windows 95

• • Manufacturer: Microsoft

• Designer: Bill Gates

• Generation: Fifth Generation

• Bits: 32-Bit

  • Year Released: 1995

• Units sold: 8-11 Million Units Sold (About.)

• Media: Floppy Disks and CD-ROMs

• Summary: One of the incarnations of the Windows Franchise. It was to be the unit that was considered revolutionary in terms of not only office work, but gameplay with it's updated graphics.

History

Windows 95 was created in August of 1995 with the internal code name "Chicago". The initial design of it to be better then it's predecessors, mainly Windows 93, on many accounts such as being the Windows that merged both "Windows" programming and MS-DOS, eventually creating and showing massive improvement with the Graphical User Interface (GUI), in other words: the multi-task system. Before Windows 95 was officially released, Microsoft sent out to users for $19.95 a 3 1/2 floppy diskette that had a Beta version of Windows 95 called Windows Beta that was a essentially an updated version of Windows. 3.1x, or for some, a new software for a brand new computer. The idea of the program was to test run Windows 95 before the release in November.

When it came to marketing, Windows 95 was a smashing success, having major hit band The Rolling Stone, singing their 1981 song "Start Me Up" as a pun to the start up button on the computer have sold over 4 million units on the first four days alone. Major cities from all over the world also anticipated the release of Windows 95 that they prepared themselves through many ways, example being the Empire State building lighting up it's colors to match that of the Windows. Famous stars Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston of the "Friends" franchise also gave a 30 minute promotional to make people go out and buy Windows 95.

Empire State Building lit up like Windows

Of course, like most systems, by 1997, Windows 95 was over powered by Windows 97, however that is not to say that Windows 95 as a system is still downloadable via the internet and many games from the time period are still being played even on updated softwares.

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