![]() This sparked debate amongst users and professionals regarding the extent to which Windows 95 is an operating system or merely a graphical shell running on top of MS-DOS For example, it is possible to prevent the loading of the graphical user interface and boot the system into a real-mode MS-DOS environment. To end-users, MS-DOS appears as an underlying component of Windows 95. There were also major changes made to the core components of the operating system, such as moving from a mainly co-operatively multitasked 16-bit architecture to a 32-bit preemptive multitasking architecture. Windows 95 merged Microsoft’s formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products, improvements over its predecessor, Windows 3.1, most notably in the graphical user interface (GUI) and in its simplified “plug-and-play” features. More than one million copies was sold in the first four days of its release, Windows 95 release included a commercial featuring The Rolling Stones’ 1981 single “Start Me Up” (a reference to the Start button) Kicking off one of the largest product launches in technology history, Microsoft releases the highly anticipated Windows 95. ![]()
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