Microsoft Windows 95 Launch with Bill Gates & Jay Leno (1995)
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- Dreams come true: the holy grail of Microsoft launch events finally made available for viewing pleasure after nearly 27 years. This launch event stars Jay Leno as he explores Windows 95 and the campus while making remarkably corny and dated celebrity jokes, so it's an unexpected relief to hear Bill Gates talk when he isn't around.
Several pieces of footage from this event have been floating around for many years, but the full uncut version was nowhere to be found up until now, so you'll be witnessing a lot of stuff that hasn't been seen by anyone outside of attendees, the press, and the development team. One example is some of the websites shown near the end, including pages from the older MSN service, and the official homepage for the Windows 95 launch campus complete with rich web graphics. And that was all displayed on Internet Explorer 1.0!
This tape also houses that infamous Windows 1.0 "commercial" with Steve Ballmer that I uploaded previously, in case you're wondering where that originates from. It's also one of possibly several different prints for that video, as there are other old copies floating around shown to have different intros.
A pretty crucial detail at the beginning of the video regarding Windows 95's release to manufacturing date is also brought up, as the one that's present on Wikipedia wrongly states that its August 15th, so that's another mystery cleared up.
I consider this to be the absolute pinnacle of my VHS collection, as I doubt anything else I collect will ever top this. It cost a pretty penny to obtain too! That doesn't mean it won't be the end of my collecting endeavors, as I'll be back to upload more tapes from time to time - mostly on the Internet Archive. So now I bring this crucial piece of software history to you, and I hope you hold this landmark of a tape in high regard as much as I do. Enjoy!
"Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones (1981)
Chapter selection:
0:00 Prelude and Legal Jargon
2:08 July 14, 1995 - Developer Stories (and geese which make pig noises)
4:22 Windows Then - Steve Ballmer in 1986 "selling" Windows 1.0, except in Nebraska
5:29 Windows Now - Beta Tester Testimonies
6:59 Launch Show Begins! Jay Leno on Stage
11:41 Bill Gates Demonstrates the Start Button
18:12 Comparing Windows 95 against Windows for Workgroups 3.11
20:15 Windows 95 Upgrade Volunteers (Chicago CD vest guy)
24:20 Gates' PowerPoint outlining Windows 95's key technical features
30:59 Demonstration of Networking Features (easy printer installation, group policies)
34:15 Microsoft Mousemobile
35:20 More Beta Tester Testimonies (Ford Motor Company)
39:49 Even More Beta Tester Testimonies from Other Companies
44:09 Bill Gates Discusses End User Benefits of Windows 95
46:11 Pavilion Tour, 3D Gaming Demo
48:29 Windows 95 Upgrade Under Way, Plug and Play Devices Installed
49:06 Yet More Beta Tester Testimonies (Artists, researching on Encarta, the simplicity of AutoPlay)
52:20 Microsoft Office 95 Demonstration
1:05:36 Windows 95 Upgrade Complete, PCMCIA Demo
1:06:28 Bill Miller Demonstrates the Microsoft Network
1:12:54 Windows 95 On-Line Launch Event website
1:16:19 Microsoft Plus! Companion for Windows 95 Demonstration (Space Cadet Pinball is shown here briefly before Jay interrupts Bill yet again)
1:20:23 Brad Silverberg's Closing Notes
1:24:23 Start Me Up advertisement (1st preview)
1:25:36 The Windows 95 Development Team!
1:29:18 Ending, 3D Windows 95 Logo Animation
1:29:47 Empty space on the tape, included only for completeness - Věda a technologie
Incredible that this has eluded the internet for so very long, wow.
Thanks so much for digitizing and sharing this!
LGR! Good to see you saw this too.
leno ran out of money to keep it offline
I couldn't have said it better Clint. What an amazing day!
Love your channel LGR! - from UK here :)
LGR is always surfing the internet in the most random computer places, love your content!
Wow, that's quite a leap from Windows 11 to 95. Can't wait.
😂😂😂
@@ChatGPT1111 thank god there are 56K modems now
@@OLIV3R_YT if only T1 lines were affordable.
If you think about it, Windows 95 is actually easier to use in some parts than 11.
Wait till you see Windows 2000.
This is incredible. Thanks for uploading this!
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Omg Michael mjd hi
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This is very nearly the most 90s thing I've ever seen. Jay Leno, pleated oversized slacks, Clinton jokes, retro tech. I love it.
Retro tech? A printer driver installing without an error is alien technology still
Difference is one can now experience the self-immolation of Windows 11 in ultra-wide 8K. The future is now!
I was 7 years old when my father scheduled a Saturday night event at home just to try Windows 95 in our 486 DX2 PC. I still remember clearly him asking me to pass the next floppy disk during the installation process and I could not wait to the end to see if the MS Paint had new features :D
90 minute installation time?
eu tmb haha
My first computer 486dx2 66. I was thrilled when the windows 95 launched!
@Brian Scramlin AYO 8GB RAM ?!
@@sharl16338MB.
No matter what OS you use, it's great to be able to look back on historical moments. Thanks for preserving this!
Same as this m.czcams.com/video/idNweKK7sBU/video.html
What a blast of a presentation! I remember being a kid getting my first ever PC with Windows 95 pre-installed. Oh man the memories, it all started there.
You still on a PC or did you go weak ass cell phone?
@@nirv Lol still using a PC of course
Haha same! So thankful for my dad picking up an HP Vectra
Pc master race
UPDATE (1/27/2023): It appears that Jay has also suffered a motorcycle accident just now, not long after the fire incident. I find it really concerning and ominous for both of these events to happen on such short notice.
EDIT (2/10/2023): I haven't paid much attention to the news regarding Jay's condition, but it seems he's back up again, albeit obviously more beat up then before.
Original message from 11/14/2022:
My condolences go out to Jay Leno who recently suffered a fire accident while working on one of his vintage automobiles. I might not care much for his comedic acts, but he's a really cool guy to be around having a passion for restoring cars, and no person should have to endure such pain. Hoping he recovers well soon.
EDIT (11/25/2022): He appears to be back up on his feet now, albeit with the lingering injuries still sadly visible on his face. Good to see he's doing better anyhow.
Yea bro ✨
Sadly, he suffered a motorcycle accident recently.
Steve Ballmer was only 30 years in that 1986 video but he looked about 55.
This sounds fantastic. I need to upgrade my PC to Windows 95! 😄
Its are actually an upgrade when compared to Windows nowdays...
@@ayanforever imagine how fast that'd run on modern hardware.
everything would be instant
@@ayanforever LOL !
Only 73 years to Windows (20)95!
@@stephenkamenar it won't run if your CPU is faster than 2GHz.
Wow. Steve Ballmer was like the Saul Goodman of computers
Except in Nebraska.
Developers , developers, developers developers , developers ,developers developers,
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!
REVERSI
lol true!
You definitely cannot un-see this. Amazing.
Israel Keyes was an American hero.
@@xxxjoseph7362 FBI, right here ^
So bad it was good.
Windows 95 launch was really one of the most important moment in computer history, and it was one of the major breakthrough too: running a graphical user interface with multitasking, multi-treading, protected memory on legacy ms dos environment.
Not so, the Amiga was doing that about a decade earlier.
hhahahahahahahah
and the right click
@@PeterJohnson76Amiga OS ran top of legacy MS DOS environment? I don't think so. And obviously there were plenty of multitasking GUI operating systems prior to the Windows 95. Such as Windows NT or OS/2. Amiga was pretty cool for a late-1980s home computer system, but it had its fair share of problems and the OS certainly was not "bulletproof", so to speak.
It hit in 1995, the YEAR of the Internet.
Wonderful to see this in full. It brings back a lot of memories. Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely wonderful to see this! Thanks for making this available!
I've been looking for the full presentation for years! THANK YOU!
I have been wanting to watch this for ages! Thank you so much for uploading this, this is amazing!
HD, 60fps, Full video. This is an absolute gem. Thank you so much for uploading this, now I can see Steve Ballmer, Bill, and Jay in full glory haha
Err please. This massively pre-dates both HD and 60fps!
@@martinrose9018 Not entirely true. TV has been broadcast in 60i (or 50i in PAL regions) pretty much since the beginning. And yes, 60i isn't equal to 60p, but it still contains the same amount of 60 *movements* per second. The difference is that 60fps is 60 frames per second and 60i is 60 half-frames per second. They look the same on CRTs which can display interlaced content natively, but you'll need to apply a deinterlacing algorithm on it in order to display it on a progressive LCD display. So, after applying such filter, you get 60p from 60i.
@@Wilczequ But what about HD ?
@@martinrose9018 Oh sure, there weren't any regular 720p or higher broadcasts until 2004. TV was broadcast at 480i60 for NTSC or 576i50 for PAL. I think the commenter rather referred to the high quality of the video tape rip.
@@Wilczequ Ahh, HQ rather than HD.
can’t imagine my life without computer, from using win 95 to win 11, can’t forget those days. windows xp was a big change.
What a great find. I had only a few minutes of. I always wanted to see the whole presentation. Thank you so much
Thank you so much! I remember watching this live and could never find the full launch event until now!
35 años después viendo el vídeo con los nietos
How excited were you when the launch happened?
This is very incredible. Finally Microsoft Windows 95 Launch full video much better than short video. Thank you for sharing this video. This is fun to watch.
All the people who hated this product were all Apple users in Nebraska
"Simple and painless!" - if you bought a new PC alongside with it, because it didn´t run on your old one. I remember having witnessed this whole presentation at a Microsoft office in Dresden, Germany in the 90s. A friend of mine had gotten his hands on two tickets and invited me to go there with him. I didn´t understand too much English, at the time and I didn´t even know who Jay Leno is, but I also remember the whole thing to have been great fun, anyway...and I also remember that the canapés served after the video presentation were just miraculous^^ Rewatching this after about 25 years feels just awesome, I have a whole lot of old memories from this period popping up that are not directly linked to this event, but came in tow...it´s absolutely hilarious, thank you very much for the upload!
Wow, great capture. The sound quality is phenomenal!
VHS/Betamax Hi-fi Stereo!
@@Pixelsplasher Well which is it!?
Slash! I don't know,@@VinnytotheK .
@@Pixelsplasher Ah, lol true.
Thank you for doing the noble thing and uploading this in it's entirety with no stupid watermark.
Thank you so much for uploading this! It's amazing to finally have this preserved.
I love this gem! Thanks for uploading!
Thank you for sharing! It's such a joy to watch this!
As of writing this, today is the 27th anniversary of Windows 95. I know that calling out against "shameless plugs" is the trendy thing to do nowadays, but there's something I want you to know about.
As an archivist, I have to invest lots of time and dedication (and hot dollars) into preserving legacy media in the best possible quality I can. However, I've noticed that some people have taken my VHS rips and reposted them elsewhere on CZcams and other platforms, especially this launch event. Granted, I didn't make it, and I certainly wasn't involved in the development of Windows 95 or part of the event, but there almost certainly wouldn't have been another shot at obtaining a hard copy of this historic event for ages. Microsoft also never intended to publicly display the full tape after the fact. I'm not exaggerating when I say you'd have much better chances of obtaining a dual Pentium II Xeon motherboard with the necessary retention brackets - among the rarest kinds of motherboards to exist, and something my friend Kugee had been trying to obtain for years before finally securing one.
With eBay's landscape being more vicious than it ever has before, it is now often incredibly hard to acquire even the simplest antiquated things - video cards, video tapes, or, hell, even game cartridges. When I found an auction listing for the Windows 95 launch event, me and Kugee knew that there probably wasn't going to be a second chance at acquiring such a thing. At best, it would've been ripped with inferior quality, but worse yet, it could've been scalped (relisted for $2,000 or more), or just sat on and dangled like a worm right between a fish's beady little eyes.
I am uncompromising in my efforts to get video tapes archived in their purest form. I don't implant watermarks, intros, or those goofy "hey dude like and subscribe" remarks. In return, I kindly ask that you cite me, Blue Horizon, and/or my outlets if you wish to use this footage for your own projects:
archive.org/details/@blue_horizon_137
blueosmuseum.com
Seeing that some people have gone and reuploaded my VHS rips on their channels without giving proper credit is unfair to me, as I was the one who made the effort of acquiring and digitizing them for others to freely enjoy. The only reason why this upload is on CZcams is because we anticipated that someone else would try to swoop in and take all the thunder, to which outlets like Vice and Gizmodo (more like Gizmojo) would then have attributed it to the wrong person.
But upscaling and encoding videos to 1080p just to get deinterlaced 60 FPS accepted here puts a very heavy load on my CPU, hence it can take more than an *entire day* for a two-hour VHS tape to encode in that resolution. CZcams is not a suitable platform for archival, as it refuses to permit 60 FPS for videos encoded below 720p, thus refusing to allow said framerate for resolutions like 480p, which is a much more sensible option close to the NTSC specification.
As groundbreaking of an archival that this is, it's only a small part of what I do. I have tons more to share on my Internet Archive page, including CD-ROMs of prerelease Windows builds, OEM PC recovery sets, and other kinds of niche software, as well as yet more VHS rips - some which have nothing to do about computers, and even a couple of scans of Windows 95 prerelease books so far. For close to five years, I have also been undergoing an effort to review every single prerelease build of Windows out there (prior to Windows 8 anyway) in the open along with others who have been involved in the Blue OS Museum. Additionally, pieces of software like Plus! as well as other operating systems such as OS/2 and numerous third-party shells are planned to get their own coverage some point down the line.
In any case, there's still a couple more segments of the Windows 95 Traincast series which I will get around to publishing sometime later this month. These next two have some REALLY good stuff in them, including actual footage of the World Wide Web as it was in 1995 (I've published some clips of this on my channel already), as well as a largely forgotten, let alone poorly documented networking-related feature of Windows that stuck out to us when we screened it privately. Kugee plans to cover this feature on his own site as well as part of an upcoming thing of his involving self-hosted videos; there is a chance you may have heard of the name before somewhere.
He's also created a heavily customized distribution of Windows 95 called Windows 95D Lite, which comes with tons of drivers and updates to make it easier to get it running on any of your older computers (particularly those from 1996 to 2000). By default, it doesn't come with any extra fancy cosmetics (and is in fact cleaner than Microsoft's official distributions, removing the Microsoft Network component and much of Internet Explorer 3), but I have contributed a theme called "Blue Riverside" to it that can optionally be installed alongside plenty of others from Microsoft Plus. It's available to download here: razorback95.com/projects/win95dl
Apart from all that, while this launch tape surfacing may very well be as good as anything can get in regard to digitizing software-related tapes, we look forward to innovating further in legacy computing - continuing to grow our sites, turning up more revelations in the history of older Windows releases, and one day delivering brand new software designed with old hardware platforms in mind for you to enjoy. Thank you for taking the time to watch the tape in its entirety.
And remember, the RTM date is not August 15th!
It was only this morning while at work I was looking for something random, I already can't remember what. Saw an article for this video. Came here cause I thought "What are they talking about, I know I've seen it before." Then realised it was only clips I'd seen not the whole thing. This is gold. Never knew this channel existed.
Oh wow, I’ve waited so long to see this! Thanks for sharing. 😄
my mom needs upgrade to windows 11
I can't believe I watched the entire thing. Jay Leno's pop culture jokes ring in my skull. Thanks for the upload!
Oh man! That's amazing! Thanks for sharing this!
This is gold, thanks for uploading.
Jay Leno is the perfect embodiment of 90s Microsoft.
Annoying and never self-reflective. Agreed.
AMAZING! Thanks for sharing this with us all! WOW
Çok güzel bir videoydu. İzlerken eski zamanlara ışınlanmış gibi oldum. O zamanlarda olamamış olsam da iyi bir nostaljiydi. Yükleyip bize izleme şansı verdiğiniz için teşekkür ederim!
OMG! Tkanks for uploading! Tears in my eyes
Windows 95 Build 950 r-6
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Compiled: July 11, 1995
Released: August 24, 1995
Mainstream & Extended Support Ended in: December 31, 2001
4.00.950 r-6
Thank you so much for this upload! Great viewing!!
Thanks for sharing. I still remember getting my first PC on my 18th birthday , fresh with W95 on it and using the internet on dial up. It's amazing how far we've come
True here we are on windows 11 with fast m2 drives
I bet you went straight looking for porn.
It’s so cool to see all of my favorite content creators here on in this comment section. Also, what a absolute great video, thank you for uploading this.
Finally, I'm looking this video for a long time, thanks for uploading
Thanks a lot for sharing! I still remember like it was yesterday when I switched from 3.1 to 95 :)
Good old Jay, making computing accessible to all! This is why people were buying it who didn't even own a computer
Thanks for uploading! Oh man, the 90's is so fun
Back when the OS did not spy on you.
The first computer I purchased came with Windows 95, and all PC related stuff felt like magical to me back then, discovering its inner workings and what not, everything felt fresh and exciting... including installing Internet Explorer for the 1st time!! haha
Wow - that brings me back ! Was a kid working in a small shop computer store - those boxes flew off the shelves! '95 was pretty put on a real fresh face on the PC scene
It was an absolute pleasure to watch this
I was at the 1995 showing of this! It was at the local college business development center in New York State. It was exciting.
Amazing job finding this! Thank you!
Thanks for the decent quality version of the Windows 1.0 spoof ad.
1995 - 'I've had 18 windows open at one time'
2020 - me with 100 browser tabs open across 3 browsers at once ;)
I am quite sure at that time J Leno couldn´t even know how to turn on/ off the pc ;-)
This is amazing! Thank you for uploading this
Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed having a look back.
Having worked on big software projects, I could really appreciate introducing the development team at the end. I'm sure to this day they feel amazing. Windows 95 truly did set up the new paradigm.
What an era that was...and I loved every second of it. 95, 98, 2000 (even ME) and then on to XP and 7. Really miss it but happy that I was part of that time. Such wonderful and beautiful memories.
Can you tell us why you miss it and why it was such a good era?
@@ishmael2586we had not realised yet how big tech was taking over the control of our lives 😂😂 now we're all wondering if we were right to just embrace everything
Cool. Windows 95 was a beast OS in 1995. Finally the launch event is now in high-quality.
4:27 Great to see that famous Windows 1.0 comercial in High Quality! Thanks, Blue OS Museum for finding this full presentation!
Unforgettable the update from Windows for Workgroups to Windows 95. What a leap! The video brings back great memories! 🤩🤗
The Start menu is immortal. Every time they try to remove it, they eventually return it back.
Wow this is amazing!! First Windows I had was 3.11, 95 was a game changer!!
We had a 386sx and that was a push as my parents couldn't really afford it but got it for college work here in the UK. Must of been a year or two after the release that we finally upgraded the PC and it came with Win95. Can't remember the specs of that one. What I do remember is being amazed by finally having video and sound. All those years couldn't afford a soundcard so went without.
Anyway. What I remember most is Good Times by Edie Brickell. I was amazed by the quality, the video, the sound. That video and song has stuck with me all these years. Get massive nostalgia when hear it.
There is so much cringe in this, I can’t even make it through more than 5 minutes at a time.
The ONLY joke that flies is the woman at the 1:00:00 mark who responds to Jay’s lame joke with “probably same way you got your job”, which somehow didn’t seem scripted 😂
I am absolutely honored, to be one of the million of users to be able to use Windows 95 as an operating system back in the days when it was launched. Look at where we are now? What an amazing journey. ❤️
I totally remember this trackball thing back then at 5:56 :D Anyway big thanks for uploading this!
wow! nostalgia feelings. Thanks for sharing.
It was a milestone in history. I was at school, I was 7 years old when the computers with Windows 95 arrived, the following year my parents bought our first Compaq Presario computer. My brother and I are frontend and backend programmers thanks to all this.
1995 was the Year when the INTERNET first went Commercial.
Amazing to see this vintage footage. Thank you!
1:33 Hope you took permission before the "broadcast" 😉
On a serious note - thanks for the upload and taking the effort to digitise this turning point in the history of personal computing
Thank you for the video. I really enjoyed it.
The first steps of computing were golden days, i sadly didn't experience this era, but i can see how it was memorable anyway.
And now the time is over, MS was able to support all PC -Computers, all can use Windows. 25 years later my company buy 10 boards ASUS RAMPAGEV and 10 modern CPUS I7x6950x 10 core and two yers later after this mega investition (100K) MS Say no Computers with i76950x and no ASUS Bord any more alowed ! WE WORK since 5 years to bring all to linux , never ever we invest in hardware they are in two years no more alowed. And we dont accept the agreement that all datas on PC are Microsoft own
found you, thank you for share this video!
This is AMAZING! Thanks a lot
As a software developer migrating Lacerte Tax from DOS to Windows 95 initially, this was the time to be alive. Especially if you hate sleep!
Can you imagine getting a fake mail on the internet? I certainly can't.
Hello I'm mark zuckerberg you have to forward this massage to 10 people if you don't want your Facebook account to be deleted
Thanks for the memories @Vice
This was really cool! Lovely video. Brings memories being a kid in 90s 🎉
@5:57 "I've had 18 windows open at one time." 🤣
If you're from cs188, here's the time stamp:
4:25
I still like the looks of Windows 95
With "real" buttons to push.
MS Plus was also great, with theme flavors for everyone. My favorite was the jungle/nature theme.
Back it up also to the Internet archive - nice to finally see this!
Oh man this gives me an odd sense of nostalgia. My first OS to use was win 3.11 but our first PC had Win98 but I did use Win95 too. Never seen this launch before at all so it's kind of cool to go back.
Wow I can’t believe how good the Windows 1.0 Steve ballmer segment looks. All other copies of it online are just in terrible 240p and low frame rate. This is worth watching just to see Steve doing his over the top behaviour in glorious 60 fps.
Sweet video. It’s like a time capsule!
You are an absolute legend!
This is fantastic! Oh my god I absolutely love it 😂😂😂
After several years, we finally have it.
It all starts here
Wow. Great quality video of presentation of the greatest operating system. Old era in FullHD
I still remember when this came out and helping frineds put together their first computer, installing Windows 95 for the first time. Pretty amazing time and really eluded to where are are today as a modern computerized society.
Great work and I agree with my bud LGR below. This gave me the ultimate nerdgasm while I sit here playing with a vintage Windows 95 machine!
I can't stand that LGR guy. I bet if he got his hands on this VHS he wouldn't release it. All that guy cares about is how much MONEY he can make for pressing record. This Blue OS guy, on the other hand, did the right thing and uploaded this video in its entirety with no stupid watermarks or anything. Considering how much software and things LGR has access to, when has HE ever done anything like that?
@@nirv I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I think you're under crediting LGR for his track record of archiving software related stuff that he collects. He has an archive.org page that he regularly uploads to here: archive.org/details/@lazygamereviews
Hope this clears things up for you.
@@BlueOSMuseum yeah I've seen it but it's nothing close to what he has. Are we sure all of it's released?
@@nirv What has LGR failed to release to the internet? You should make a complete list of the items, and then a list of the most desired things he failed to release, then start a campaign to get him to release this stuff.
@@alansacks9815 Panzer Dragoon for NV1 for example. Any of the full, rare PC games he has.
I contributed code to every Microsoft OS between Windows 98 and Windows 7. It has always grated me that Win95 eluded me :-)
VERY VERY MUCH THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO. IS AMAZING. i felt like i was there.!
I'm sitting here and watching this 27 years later on Windows 11.
Back when Microsoft took the time to test their operating systems before releasing them to the public 😂
“That’s why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet!”
And their DEV tools and SDK did not suck.
Lol, did any of you use Windows 95? What an absolute mess with viruses. It is no where near as stable as what we get today
@@Zer0.-_ I cannot reboot win 11 without getting a blue screen, taskbar not autohiding correctly 30+ years later. Linux on same computer = no problems.
@@MarquisDeSang Sorry man, but if you're getting blue screens, you've probably got some kind of driver problem or installed something that "touches" kernel. "Linus = no problems." is absolute f*ckin bul*shit, based solely on what you've said, I can guarantee that you have installed some special tools in fresh Win11 install and now surprise surprise, it's broken :)
When I watch old videos like this one, I always imagine myself there explaining how things work in the future 😂
same imagine lol
I love the way the printer is installed with no problems what so ever lol!! - The drivers are obviously carefully selected
The intro editing is just 👌👌👌
Probably the best launch of anything in history.
The launch may have been big, but the product sucked balls.
@@MarcusDysonDoctorDee69 yeah, goes to show that a good image doesn't mean a good product. However, the presentation and W95 itself are huge pop culture icons and pieces of modern history, as messy as the actual system was. And funnily enough, still holds true, Windows 10/11 are a headache, but they're everywhere