What's more, the entire concept of the desktop as we know it was introduced here, as Windows 95 also added the ability to have links to apps on the main screen. It also saw the introduction of the ...

However, other than a BIOS call to plot a pixel on the screen, it didn't do much else. No problem – an engineer could write the requisite code. Windows 95 required a VGA-compatible graphics card ...

In a nutshell: When trying to install Windows 95 for the first time ... didn't actively prevent anyone from bringing images to the screen, but programmers had to manually implement all graphical ...

It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based GUI and a 32-bit operating system.