![]() The first two builds known to exist are the Usability Testing Builds from December 1992 or January 1993, seen in a Microsoft video. Internal Microsoft documents from 1992 occasionally refer to the Chicago project as Windows NT Lite. The Chicago project additionally took a few components from the Cairo project (meant for Windows NT), including the Cairo user interface, and integrated it into the Chicago shell. The Cougar project was later merged with Jaguar (known as MS-DOS 7.0, also slated for a separate release) into Chicago, which became Windows 95. Pre-release Windows for Workgroups 3.1 builds were forked into the Cougar project, which attempted to build a 32-bit protected mode kernel to be used in the next Windows-on-DOS release (at the time often called Windows 4.0, Windows 93, or Windows 94). The development of Windows 95 started in 1992 shortly after the release of Windows 3.1. ![]() At this point, Microsoft no longer offered the floppy release of Windows for OEMs, as the CD release became the more widespread one.Ī UI mockup depicting an early form of the Cairo/Chicago shell This is the last version of Windows to be available on 5.25-inch floppy disks, specifically the original release. Windows NT was too intensive for most computers of the time, and it was not until after the release of Windows 95 that Win32 applications were widely used and supported. Although it was still built upon the solid, if outdated, foundations of MS-DOS, the average user never saw the MS-DOS prompt unless they wanted to. It was a revolutionary update for Windows, and also the first concerted effort by Microsoft to listen to consumers. ![]() Many of the paradigms introduced with Windows 95 remain in use today. Microsoft focused on improving the usability of Windows with technologies such as Plug-and-Play, long file names (VFAT), the Start Menu, an updated Desktop, Internet Explorer, Mail, built-in networking, and virtual device drivers. It improved upon 16-bit Windows by introducing a hybrid 16/32-bit kernel and eliminating the need for an existing installation of MS-DOS, making it a standalone operating system (running alongside MS-DOS). ![]() It would be replaced by Windows 98, and Microsoft ended support for Windows 95 on 31 December 2001. It is the first major release in the Windows 9x operating system line, and was designed to be the successor of Windows 3.1. Windows 95 (codenamed Chicago) is a consumer version of Microsoft Windows released by Microsoft in 1995. ![]()
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