Although many of you may not know it, on a day like today one of the most important products in the software sector at the time, it turns 25. Specifically, we refer to an operating system that revolutionized the graphical aspect of this software, how could it be otherwise, we refer to Windows 95 .
Although many of you may not get to see or use it, other veterans will surely remember what this innovative launch meant at the time. And it is that Windows 95 to a large extent made us forget about the MS-DOS command-based interfaces, with permission from the Windows 3.1 intermediate step. Hence precisely its importance, a product that Microsoft itself announced by all its means and that was enormously successful.
Therefore, for many, this product, which turns 25 today, was the real starting point of the current versions of Windows 10 . Therefore, such a day as today, August 24, was when the Redmond team officially launched this first graphical operating system for everyone. Also here debuted other elements that still accompany us today such as the Start menu or the taskbar.
Windows 95 turns 25, the operating system that revolutionized computing
And those are not all the elements that are common to us today and that were released just 25 years ago. We tell you this because here we can also add the control buttons of the windows that are still with us. Therefore, even without being the only window- based operating system, it did end up being the most successful, and by far.
To give us an idea, in just the first five weeks of life, Microsoft managed to sell seven million licenses of the software. As is easy to imagine, in a short time it became the most used system in the world in the PC environment. In this way, the Redmond-based firm managed to establish its already leadership in the personal computer sector, beginning a career that continues to this day.
From there, its successors were developed, as in the case of Windows 98, ME, Vista, XP, Windows 7 or the current Windows 10. Therefore, it could be said that for enthusiasts of the brand and its software, this is an important day, at least by tradition.
Besides the graphical interface, many functions came with Windows 95
To all this we must add that this is also when it could be said that the multimedia and Internet era for operating systems began . Thanks to the graphical window-based interface that can be seen here, current programs of this type have the enormous capabilities in this regard that they offer us today.
It also greatly optimized the daily work with the PC thanks to the automation of the previous execution commands that had to be typed one by one.
