Windows 95 is 20 years old august 24.
Since it is a 20-year celebration of Windows 95. A little challenge for you geeks out there. Get a Win95 computer up an running. It have to work on the internet, email client and an office package must be installed. Browser must work on facebook and youtube.
The tricky part of this little challenge is to use Win95 as your primary computer for a week.
You seem to be very keen on this idea (I see you’ve made the same post on a number of forums), so maybe you could explain a bit more about what interests you here. What do you see as being the main issues in this challenge?
I still have a working computer that dual boots OS/2v4 and Windows NT4 - both of them almost contemporary with Windows 95 with the difference being that Windows 95 was basically still a DOS based system whereas both OS/2 and WinNT were derived from the replacement operating system that Microsoft created in 1987 (before they split with IBM) - the ninth Microsoft version of which is now called Windows 10.
I never used Windows 95/98/SE/ME having two far superior operating systems available.
The only reason Microsoft created Win 95 was to kill off OS/2 as more people were upgrading to that than to Win NT.
I remember those days
My PC was too weak to run Win95 when it came out so I continued to use Win 3.11.
But I loved its new interface so much that I made a custom progman.exe (using Delphi 1) with these trendy taskbar and START-button things. All of my friends thought that I run Win95 after that and I was so proud