Microsoft veteran Dave W. Plummer, aka Dave's Garage, recently narrated how he wrote the Start menu for Windows 95.

Microsoft designed a masterpiece right when the PC world needed it most. In the age of AI and dark patterns, it‘s grown only ...

His Windows 95 start-up is actually six seconds long, but was deemed so brilliant that Microsoft let that slide. After all, they were getting an extra two and three-quarter seconds for free… ...

So, if you're a Windows user today you owe something both to Windows 95 and that start-up sound. To me, it was the sound of adventures beginning on my screen and wasted (read: enjoyable) summers ...

If you press the key combination Alt-Shift-Esc or right-click an empty area in the taskbar, you can launch the Task Manager ...

This discarded Start menu design toyed with an almost Windows XP-ish left-hand sidebar, among other elements. Microsoft Some designs bring to mind the full-screen Start experience of Windows 8 ...

His Windows 95 start-up is actually six seconds long, but was deemed so brilliant that Microsoft let that slide. After all, they were getting an extra two and three-quarter seconds for free… ...