Windows 95: From Floppy Disks to the Desktop Revolution

On August 24, 1995, people lined up at midnight to buy an operating system. Within a year, Windows 95 was running on more than 40 million computers, and the Start button had begun a decades-long presence on PC desktops. This documentary examines the development and launch of Windows 95, Microsoft's operating system released in August 1995. It covers the technical challenges Microsoft faced, the $300 million marketing campaign featuring the Rolling Stones, the shift from DOS to graphical computing, and how the Start button and taskbar became permanent fixtures of personal computing. The video explores the hardware of the era, from 486 processors to dial-up modems, and traces Windows 95's legacy through subsequent versions of Windows.