File 001 · Category Openers
Record 007 · Software · 1995
95.07.SMicrosoft Windows 95
Microsoft
“The Start menu, taskbar, and Plug and Play that taught the world to use a PC.”
Start Me Up.
Merged MS-DOS + Windows into a consumer event. 32-bit preemptive multitasking for apps, long filenames, and the biggest software launch marketing of the 1990s.
Peak mainstreaming of the personal computer.
Filed notes
- Start button / taskbar
- Plug and Play
- Built-in TCP/IP stack
Units. Tens of millions in first years; Windows family later billions of seats
SIC
7372
Prepackaged Software
NAICS
513210
Software Publishers
