Windows 95 commercial

[gameboy1977]

 

 

can you believe that logo is same as Microsoft's current?

[macoman]

Amazing how the logotipo is so similar

[Ian W]

I miss the Start menu that was introduced in Windows 95 and inexplicably removed from Windows 7. It was available up to Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008.

  

[Quillz]

Where do you want to go today?

[123456789A]

I like how that Windows 95 commercial predicted flipping live tiles!

[link6155]

I miss the Start menu that was introduced in Windows 95 and inexplicably removed from Windows 7. It was available up to Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008.

  

You can actually get a similar Start Menu in Windows 10 now:

[+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹]

You can actually get a similar Start Menu in Windows 10 now:

 

 

well that is not bad.    and until then, there is classic shell to customize my windows 8 to however i like it.    

 

without it i would never use win8 as it was just annoying, since i do not use ANY live apps, or whatever they are tiled.. ( :rofl: )

[redfish]

[Quillz]

http://www.windows.microsoft.com

 

I guess back then, people were unaware you didn't need the "www" in front.

[veternan]

I still can't get to understand what's the diffrence between "User Setting of PC settings app" and "User account in control panel"!!!!!

Can't Microsoft put all settings in one place I got headache!!??

 

[simonlang]

the startmenu really has gone downhill all way. i remember when there was still a startbutton you could change the text on it with a freeware prog, you could also change the look of the sideway banner, don't remember anymore how it was called but that was a nice little piece of customization, think possible till included xp, and then came vista :/

[Ian W]

I thought I should drop this here. According to Nathan Lineback of Toastytech the document linked to below is the Windows 95 manual, which is appropriately named Introducing Microsoft Windows 95.

http://toastytech.com/manuals/Windows%2095%20Manual.pdf

"Welcome to the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. With Windows 95, all the things you do now will be easier and faster, and what you've always wanted to do is now possible."

[+Eternal Tempest MVC]

Windows 95 version A was NOT tested and polished... register corrupt, reboot loop was fun.

 

Windows 95 B, and C (C was also know as OSR 2.5 I believe) was stable. 

OSR 2.5 even added Fat32 Support, and a USB patch. It was only released to manufactures. 

[simonlang]

Windows 95 version A was NOT tested and polished... register corrupt, reboot loop was fun.

 

 

indeed. it was a nightmare per se. always after a fresh install and installing plus pack i got registry errors and unable to fix them, even on the command line.

it went so bad that some guy who helped me out at the beginning of my computer time seriously thought about installing win 3.1 because win 95a was unusable most of the time.

95b was better but still lacked the stability we have today.

 

just imagine if today ms would release such a .... product..... unbelievable i think no one would buy it.

[John S. Veteran]

http://www.windows.microsoft.com

 

I guess back then, people were unaware you didn't need the "www" in front.

 

Back then we still needed the www.  This is the time period Gates still thought the internet was a fad.  Win95 didn't come with tcp framework or IE 1.0.

[Max Norris]

Back then we still needed the www.  This is the time period Gates still thought the internet was a fad.  Win95 didn't come with tcp framework or IE 1.0.

95 did have the TCP stack, just not enabled by default, had to add it manually. IE 2 came out of the box with 95 OSR 1, but before that yea you needed Plus for IE1 or another browser.. spent a fair amount of time with Navigator myself.

[gameboy1977]

I never seen that oldest Internet explorer 1,2 or 3 in earlier Windows 95 before. I got a new computer with Windows 95 in late summer 1998. I knew about Internet explorer 4 and Netscape before.

[macoman]

I never seen that oldest Internet explorer 1,2 or 3 in earlier Windows 95 before. I got a new computer with Windows 95 in late summer 1998. I knew about Internet explorer 4 and Netscape before.

Me too, never ever see ie version 1 or version 2 in Windows 95. Never used Windows 3.11 either.

[cork1958]

My first computer had IE3 on it.

 

As asked by some one above, if today's OS's were as unstable as any of the 9x's including Window Me today, you KNOW no one would be using it! Man, those were crash and burn OS's!! :x

[Atlantico]

I miss the Start menu that was introduced in Windows 95 and inexplicably removed from Windows 7. It was available up to Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008.

  

 

It was one of the best ideas Microsoft ever had, was to remove the pathetic UI element that was the Start Menu - if it wasn't for the collective nerd-rage that resulted in torrents of basement dwellers pissing themselves with impotent whining we'd still be free from that thing. 

 

The only good thing that Microsoft caved in and brought that atrocity back as an option for Windows 10 was to be that no one would ever have to hear or see another whiiiiine about the Start Menu. 

 

No such luck. Microsoft might as well not have bothered.

[Ian W]

It was one of the best ideas Microsoft ever had, was to remove the pathetic UI element that was the Start Menu.

Well forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know.

 

if it wasn't for the collective nerd-rage that resulted in torrents of basement dwellers pissing themselves with impotent whining we'd still be free from that thing.

 

The only good thing that Microsoft caved in and brought that atrocity back as an option for Windows 10 was to be that no one would ever have to hear or see another whiiiiine about the Start Menu. 

 

No such luck. Microsoft might as well not have bothered.

 

I was not referring to the removal of the Start menu from Windows 8 in my previous post, but the removal of the classic Start menu?the Start menu introduced in Windows 95?from Windows 7.

Regardless of your stance, I don't see a problem in having the Start menu as an option for those who prefer it. I know what it is like to have one's favorite features removed from the operating system.

[PGHammer]

Windows 95 version A was NOT tested and polished... register corrupt, reboot loop was fun.

 

Windows 95 B, and C (C was also know as OSR 2.5 I believe) was stable. 

OSR 2.5 even added Fat32 Support, and a USB patch. It was only released to manufactures. 

Actually, individuals could get it the same way OEMs could - via System Builder (this was true of both SR2 and SR 2.5 - I bought a copy of SR2 when I bought a Pentium-166 MMX CPU and motherboard).

SR2 was ALSO the year of the "oopies" involving crossover between Windows and Office (both 95 and 97) OEM CD keys - they were, in fact, identical.  It was one of the bigger blunders Microsoft Licensing has ever done.