Though it was often cloaked by a wonderful blue sky full of fluffy clouds, the absolutely hideous puke-green-not-quite-teal color used by Windows 95 for its default background has long baffled me. I ...

Oh, God. Nothing stinks up a room like a die-hard Amiga fanboy who just won't let it go. "Oh, what do you got there, Windows 7? Yeah, that looks like what I was doing with my Amiga 1200 back in the ...

On August 24, 1995, Windows 95 went on sale in the USA – and, like the first iPhones later on, it was a social event. Some people camped out in front of the electronics stores, weeks before an ...

As of today, Windows 95—the first of the “modern” Microsoft OSes—is a quarter-century old. Happy birthday old friend. We could, of course, take this opportunity to recount the myriad features of 95 ...