TechSpot

Did you know? Windows 95 used three different operating systems during setup

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has settled once and for all the question of why the Windows 95 setup program went on a tour ...
Digital Trends

Windows 95, Duke Nukem 3D are strange bedfellows on the Xbox One console

Now this is interesting. Not too long ago we saw Microsoft’s retired Windows 95 platform running inside a browser, on the Nintendo 3DS handheld, and on an Apple iWatch. Now it seems that someone ...
TechSpot

Windows 95 developers didn't have enough time to give the OS its own setup program

Retro Potato: Raymond Chen is once again sharing an intriguing behind-the-scenes story about the making of Windows 95. It turns out that building the setup process for the consumer-oriented operating ...
Windows Central

A TechTuber nostalgically runs Windows 95 on a Nintendo 3DS with 256MB of RAM and a stylus pen — but painfully slow boot times hashed his mellow

TechTuber MetraByte recently managed to get Windows 95 to run on the new Nintendo 3DS. The modder encountered several setbacks during the process, including slow boot times, which can be attributed to ...