[N3WBI3]

Love it or hate it, it changed the world..

[N3WBI3]

Tech Ping worthy..

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[steveo]

I think I'll reboot four times today just for old times sake.

[Mike Bates]

I was a beta tester for Win 95. For reformatting my hard drive about eight times I got a copy of the final product and. . . . a t-shirt. Gates is such a humanitarian on stuff like that.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[sionnsar]

Yah. I remember installing that... and re-installing... and re-installing... and re-installing... because it kept freezing during installation.

Until we removed the mouse.

[martin_fierro]

Unnngh.

[Izzy Dunne]

Did they ever figure out that one of the key lines in the song "Start Me Up" that they used to promote this was:
You make a grown man cry"?

[shadowman99]

Happy Birthday to an operating system that has officially been killed by it's corporate parents. Get on that upgrade train.

[Izzy Dunne]

Nowadays, it's been replaced by WindowsRG. Check out the free demo...

[ShadowAce]

[avg_freeper]

Windows 3.11 worked perfect. I thought Windows 95 would work equally well or better.

It ended up selling me on the Macintosh. Sometimes I get the same feeling now when I wrestle with Mac OS X remembering how well system 8 and 9 worked.

[1rudeboy]

I still have one computer that "runs" Win95. All I need is some sort of resource disk to get it to boot (not a "start-up" disk). When I have the time . . . .

[Arthalion]

Oh, I also have to mention this:

The original published minimum requirements for Windows 95 were a 386 DX20, 4MB of RAM, DOS 3.2, 1X CDROM, and 70MB of HDD space. One day some friends and I got bored in my garage and BUILT a 386 DX20 with 4MB of RAM (SIPP's no less), a 1X CDROM, DOS 5, and a 250MB IDE hard drive.

It took 18 hours to install the operating system onto the computer and boot it for the first time. After the installation was completed, total boot time for the system, from power button to Start button, was about 20 minutes. When you moved your mouse to the start button and clicked it, it would typically take 1-3 minutes for the start menu to draw onto the screen.

It's largely forgotten today, but at the time the minimum requirements for Win95 were considered to be one of the most egregious marketing lies in computer history. When I mentioned this to a former MS developer years later, he was amazed that we'd gotten it to install at all...apparently MS itself had only managed to get the configuration to function a handful of times, and most installations resulted in a crash or freeze.

[chronic_loser]

The way Steve Ballmer dealt with OS/2 put him on the track to be the man he is today. Voted THE most cowardly prominent business man in America today: Read it here http://www.fastcompany.com/subscr/98/open_cowards.html?partner=yahoo-pf%3fcid=yahoo-pf-36></A>

[Billthedrill]

Hunh - I mentioned that to my co-workers just now (one Micro$oftie, one Netware, one Unix) and would you believe it? They refused to sing "Happy Birthday," instead dissolving into derisive laughter and suggesting that I reformat and install Linux.

Anyone got a Linux build for a Commodore 64?

[TheForceOfOne]

Windows 95 had a screen lock on my heart.

[HitmanLV]

I was so excited about Windows 95 I bought three copies that day!

Problem was, I didn't even have a computer. ;-)

[HitmanLV]

I was so excited about Windows 95 I bought three copies that day!

Problem was, I didn't even have a computer. ;-)

[Reaganghost]

Ahh, those were the days. I remember my first 14-ounce granite headthumper. It had a 27-inch oak hand-hewn handle with the stone married in place by sinew from the shin of a sabre tooth, enough leverage to hammer any liberal.

[garyhope]

Since we're talking Windows,...what is Windows Center Media Edition? How is it different from regular XP Home or XP Pro.

Is XP Pro worth the extra money over XP Home?

Thanks.