Twenty years ago, Microsoft changed the world. On August 24, 1995, Windows 95 was released to the public, beginning a revolution that has helped shaped the technology world for the next two decades.

It was by no means the first version of Windows. Home computing had been around for more than a decade, but nothing before, had had the same impact. As well as being a technological breakthrough, introducing features that still define Microsoft’s operating system today, Windows 95 was an unprecedented cultural phenomenon.

Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston, better known as Chandler and Rachel from Friends, starred in an hour-long instructional video; the Empire State Building and Toronto’s CN Tower were lit up in Microsoft’s colours; and the Rolling Stones were paid a rumoured $8m for allowing “Start Me Up” to provide the soundtrack to its television adverts.

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i dont see how 1995 to 2015 is 25 years.....