Windows 95 Desktop

Windows 95

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft, released to manufacturing on July 14, 1995, and to retail on August 24, 1995. The first of the Windows 9x line of operating systems, Windows 95, which replaced Windows 3.1, merged Microsoft's MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems into a single product, and featured major changes to the core components of the operating system, such as moving from the mainly cooperatively multitasked 16-bit architecture of its predecessor to a 32-bit preemptive multitasking architecture.

Microsoft Windows

Windows is a proprietary operating system developed by Microsoft. Windows is grouped into families that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows for personal computers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems. Windows itself is further grouped into editions that cater to different users – Home for home users, Professional for advanced users, Education for schools, and Enterprise for corporations. Windows is sold both as a consumer retail product and to computer manufacturers, who bundle and distribute it with their systems.

windows

Noun

1. plural of window

Verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of window

desktop

Noun

1. The top surface of a desk.
2. A desktop computer.

Adjective

1. Designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.
2. Of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer.