In August of 1995, Microsoft launched Windows 95, a system operating that changed forever the way we use computers nowadays.
The launching of this OS was accompanied by a millionaire and extensive marketing campaign, which helped a lot to make Windows 95 successful in popularity and sales.
Millions of users witnessed a revolutionary interface of this system, simple and powerful, it had a new start button, alongside the taskbar and Windows Explorer. This kind of interface became the standard from then on.
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Windows 95 also marked an important step into the Internet era. Some manual configurations were still required, but the system had integrated web browsers, email, and dial-up connections, thus marking a new digital era.
Things like multitasking, new architecture, more efficent file system and a better hardware support made personal computers more accesible to the average user.
As a conclusion, Windows was the beginning of a new era; it showed that computers can be useful in so many tasks, friendly and fun for everyone, not exclusive to expert users like programmers or corporations.