Microsoft Windows 95 Promo "Welcome 1" by Bill Plympton (1995, Microsoft)
11Bill Plympton shows off his unique hand drawn style. The man is truly a gifted artist and I hope he keeps going.
Windows 95 brought tons of technological advancements to the world. DirectX for example, was a brilliant idea. An universal SDK that would allow people to utilize the various 3d/2d Accelleration features of their video hardware across hardware platforms. OpenGL followed suit and introduced these revolutionary features in 1997 with OpenGL 1.1 (bringing them to the open source world and to most other platforms). Subsequently DirectX and OpenGL would be refined, tweaked and improved through the following decades and bring us to where we are today. It's a beautiful song and dance that is responsible for the state of modern gaming and the sheer awe we can experience from even from games on low end systems.
So yes, Windows 95's launch was a major turning point for gaming and for that I salute it and its successor's (Windows 10) launch today!
Windows 95 (codenamed Chicago) is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released on August 24, 1995, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products.
Windows 95 integrated Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products. It featured significant improvements over its predecessor, Windows 3.1, most notably in the graphical user interface (GUI) and in its relatively simplified "plug-n-play" features. There were also major changes made at lower levels of the operating system, such as moving from a mainly 16-bit architecture to a pre-emptively multitasked 32-bit architecture.
Accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign, Windows 95 was a major success in the marketplace at launch and shortly became the most popular desktop operating system.[citation needed] It also introduced numerous functions and features that were featured in later Windows versions, such as the taskbar, the 'Start' button, and the way the user navigates. It was also suggested that Windows 95 had an effect of driving other major players (including OS/2) out of business, something which would later be used in court against Microsoft.
Three years after its introduction, Windows 95 was succeeded by Windows 98. Microsoft ended support for Windows 95 on December 31, 2001.
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