It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based GUI and a 32-bit operating system.

Version 4.0 switched to the Windows 95 desktop (see below). Unlike the previous Windows 95/98, NT supported multiprocessing (see SMP), added security and administrative features and dual boot.

Internet Explorer debuted on Windows desktop computers in 1995 and by 2004, had cornered 95% of the market. But now, Google Chrome, Apple's Safari and Mozilla Firefox are dominant. Users wanting ...

Plummer said: "A few seconds later, the PC's screen turned that classic sea foam green!" Icons appeared – mostly wrong and with missing labels – but it was unmistakably the Windows 95 desktop ...