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Microsoft Windows 95 (code name Chicago), commonly known as Windows 95, is a proprietary operating system of Microsoft Corporation belonging to the Microsoft Windows family and dedicated to IBM PCs and compatibles with an Intel 80386 processor or higher. It is the successor to Microsoft Windows 3.x and was later replaced by its successor Windows 98.
Released on August 24, 1995 and marketed until 2001, Windows 95 is the first hybrid 16/32-bit operating system with a graphical interface of the Windows 4.x family.
The market launch of Windows 95 was accompanied by a huge advertising campaign which on television had the Rolling Stones song as its musical accompaniment Start Me Upa song that alluded to the software’s brand new feature: the “Start” menu.
Windows 95 spread rapidly among personal computer users.allowing Microsoft to definitively establish itself on the operating system market and to assume a dominant position in the years to come. What allowed this system to spread among home users was the innovative graphics, which greatly simplified the use of the computer compared to previous versions and other competing operating systems, but above all the much more affordable price compared to more expensive OS such as those of Apple.