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V August year 1995 presented by the company Microsoft your operating system Windows 95. His arrival caused a lot of excitement among the lay and professional public more commotion than previous versions, and it's no wonder - Windows 95 brought a lot tempting news, among which the user interface or menu was significantly redesigned Home. It was a system that foreshadowed gradual extinction MS-DOS and at the same time boom 32-bit applications.

Microsoft was definitely not going to promotion of your new Windows save. He invested in the relevant advertising campaign 300 million dollars, so the public could wait for example reklamy, in which the song was played Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones (which was also heard when Bill Gates introduced Windows 95 on the stage), and in which the aforementioned Start item played a role. It also saw the light of day long instructional video, which featured the stars of the series Friends Jennifer Aniston a Matthew perry. As part of the promotion of its new operating system, Microsoft also let light up the Empire State BuildingAt CN Tower in Toronto, the company let it hang again giant banner.

In his time development the Windows 95 operating system carried an internal codename Chicago. In the early stages of its creation in a number of points resembled operating system Windows 3.1, however, by the time he first got his official name, was already distinguished by its characteristic user interface and also became iconic the Start button. In my latest beta version before the official release, the Windows 95 operating system got its own typical logo. Although Windows 95 he wasn't the only one operating system on the market, absolutely without problems dominated and then OS/2 by IBM pushed completely into the background. In addition to the mentioned Start button, Windows 95 also brought Task Manager, main panel (Taskbar) or maybe trash can.

Initially was missing Web browser Internet Explorer, which was part of Windows 95 up to v later versions. File manager, known from the previous version, was replaced in Windows 95 An explorer. The Windows 95 operating system also offered support long filenames a contemporary support 32-bit i 16-bit processes. It was also characteristic of Windows 95 sound when they start – the author of this six-second melody is a musician Brian Eno, whom they approached in order to create it in 1994 Mark Malamud a Eric Gavriluk.

Windows 95 officially required a processor to run Intel 80386DX, 4 MB RAM a 50 - 55 MB hard disk space. These were relatively simple requirements that Microsoft wanted to meet to users moving from Windows 3.1. Microsoft distributed its Windows 95 mainly on CD-ROM, but owners of older machines could also purchase a version on diskettes.

Sources: Lucidica, Mashable, Fortune, BGR

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