The legacy of Windows 95 can be seen in Microsoft's balance sheets. The OS jump-started years of growing revenue and profits for Microsoft and introduced computing to millions.

Returning to the present and Windows 10, the spiritual if not codebase descendant of Windows 95, has a Start menu and a task bar that will be visibly familiar to a user from 25 years before.

Windows 95 was a highwater mark from Microsoft's golden age. It's no wonder Microsoft wants to celebrate it. The event page promises food, drinks, entertainment, special guests, and "surprises." ...

It only takes about 10 minutes to step two decades into the past, at a time when music was MIDIs and BMPs where images. Windows 95 has been necro'd, once again, and you can now run in on Chrome ...

Windows 95 launched 25 years ago. Windows 95 introduced several features that went on to become staples of all Windows operating systems. Windows 95 was the first user-friendly version of Windows.

Teens discovering the Windows 95 operating system for the first time is both hilarious and horrifying. Most of us in the working world remember Windows 95. 20 years old last year, it was for many ...

Accordingly, Windows 95 (or in fact any version of any operating system) can be considered as a showcase for what can be done with the hardware of the time. Users took to Windows 95 quite quickly.

Good times. Windows 95 was not the best operating system Microsoft ever released—many people would apply that designation to Windows XP—but it was certainly one of the most important iterations.

It turns out Windows 95 Mobile has some real-life precedent. Steven Sinofsky, former president of Microsoft's Windows Division, tweeted a response to the video, saying, "this is pretty cute but ...

Windows 95 improved networking and added long file names and Plug and Play, the latter a welcome relief for users. Memory limitations, plaguing users in Windows 3.1, were greatly diminished.

GBATemp.net user shutterbug2000 successfully got Windows 95 to boot up on Nintendo's newest handheld, and posted a video to YouTube that shows off what it looks like. Check it out below (via NeoGAF).

Accordingly, Windows 95 (or in fact any version of any operating system) can be considered as a showcase for what can be done with the hardware of the time. Users took to Windows 95 quite quickly.