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Strategist
2015 Aug 24, 5:47pm
Windows 95 is 20 years old today
And it still does not work.
Thanks, now I feel old.
The young and smart prefer Apple.
Ceffer
2015 Aug 24, 6:07pm
If it were 21, it would at least be drinking age and have an excuse for being a POS.
Strategist
2015 Aug 24, 6:13pm
If it were 21, it would at least be drinking age and have an excuse for being a POS.
It's 20, so you can give it the death penalty for crimes committed.
Strategist
2015 Aug 24, 7:48pm
The young and smart prefer Apple.
Care to back that up with any actual evidence?
You are so picky. Always asking for evidence when it's just common sense. Just like Bob here.
http://www.higheredtechdecisions.com/article/students_speak_macs_vs._pcs
Strategist
2015 Aug 24, 7:50pm
You are so picky. Always asking for evidence when it's just common sense. Just like Bob here.
http://www.higheredtechdecisions.com/article/students_speak_macs_vs._pcs
More unnecessary evidence.
http://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2012/11/05/macs-for-the-win-for-college-students/
Strategist
2015 Aug 24, 7:51pm
You are so picky. Always asking for evidence when it's just common sense. Just like Bob here.
http://www.higheredtechdecisions.com/article/students_speak_macs_vs._pcsMore unnecessary evidence.
http://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2012/11/05/macs-for-the-win-for-college-students/
Still more evidence. Why do you do this to yourself, Dan? Why?
http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/05/70-of-college-freshman-use-macs/
Dan8267
2015 Aug 24, 10:17pm
Still more evidence.
Honey, you're evidence is that the college students prefers "MACs"? Well that's stupid for several reasons.
1. College students know nothing and are drunk, horny idiots in "pre-adult daycare".
2. College students are extremely conformist and don't buy products based on intellectual criteria.
3. There haven't been actual MACs since 1996 when they were discontinued after Apple switched to the PowerPC.
4. There hasn't been a PowerPC since 2006 when they were discontinued after Apple admitted defeat hands down and started selling PCs.
But hey, don't let those facts get in the way of your narrative.
You are so picky. Always asking for evidence when it's just common sense. Just like Bob here.
http://www.higheredtechdecisions.com/article/students_speak_macs_vs._pcsMore unnecessary evidence.
http://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2012/11/05/macs-for-the-win-for-college-students/
College students are tightly grouped. Everyone is aware of what everyone else is using and buying. We are sensitive to fads, and social norm. And as a social response, the best choice for college students is to get a Mac.
Apple sold macs (actually a mac and mac printer package) to college students at almost cost for years, they felt that getting students to use macs would lead to people continuing to use macs. They started a social norm of using macs at colleges that continues to this day. It actually started with the apple II. Steve Jobs lobbied congress for a bill that would allow apple to take as charitable deductions any computer donated to a school. It failed, but California passed a similar state bill and apple handed out computers to virtually every school in the state under a program called kids can't wait. Teachers were required to take training from an apple dealer and get a certification. There were actually a group of teachers called "Apple Distinguished Educators" who went to schools, conferences, and trade shows to promote apple in the classroom.
Tenpoundbass
2015 Aug 25, 10:37am
If they were smart they would be be paying a bank every single penny they are going to make for the next 30 years.
Show how much you and those young and smart college students know.
Sure they are smart right now, but I bet they wont be so bright when they are whinnign after graduation because they can't find a damn job in Lesbial lumberjack studies.
Smart people don't get taken advantage of on the scale that THIS administration has exploited the youth in this country on every demographic. They rode them hard and put them away wet, while they clammored for more. Smart ones indeed!!!
http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9197529/windows-95-is-20-years-old-today
Twenty years ago today, people were lining up at CompUSA or Best Buy at midnight. It wasn’t a new Call of Duty game, Apple’s latest iPod, or any type of hardware at all that shoppers were waiting for. It was software, and not just any software: Windows 95.
Microsoft’s Windows 95 release on August 24th, 1995 was a highly anticipated launch. Jay Leno helped launch the software alongside Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, with a lot of jokes and the appearance of the entire Windows 95 development team on stage. It was a huge day for Microsoft with TV commercials blasting the Rolling Stones’ "Start Me Up" with images of the new Start button that we still (just about) use today. Microsoft even hired Jennifer Anniston and Matthew Perry to create an hour-long cyber sitcom all about Windows 95, and the software was so popular that 7 million copies were sold during the first five weeks.
Away from all the fanfare around the launch, PC geeks were choosing between Pentium or 486 processors, IDE or SCSI hard drives, double-speed CD-ROMs, and Sound Blaster audio cards to experience the best of Windows 95. Microsoft added a lot of features to Windows 95, but the biggest was a new Start button, menu, and task bar that made it a lot easier to discover applications and navigate the operating system. Multitasking improvements and the graphical interface were a big leap from Windows 3.1 and the days of MS-DOS, but the interface was rather similar for Macintosh and OS/2 users at the time.
Windows 95 wasn’t all about the Start button, though. Besides being a 32-bit OS, an important addition was support for long filenames, up to 250 characters. It sounds like a basic feature in 2015, but at the time it made naming documents a lot easier. Another big feature was the introduction of Plug and Play, to automatically detect and install hardware. While the process of Plug and Play has been greatly improved in more recent releases, Windows 95’s implementation was often referred to as Plug and Pray thanks to the often unreliable device install process that resulted in IRQ conflicts and lots of driver fun.
"Windows 95 had a lot of new features"
Microsoft had other equally ambitious plans for Windows 95. A new Microsoft Network (MSN) application came bundled with a prominent icon on the desktop. MSN was designed to provide access to email, chat rooms, newsgroups, and the first WWW homepages through a dial-up connection. Microsoft charged a monthly fee to access MSN, and if you used it for more than three hours a month, there were extra charges. It was the early days of the internet and dial-up connections, and MSN now exists as a web service through various tailored apps or a browser.
Microsoft also introduced its first idea of syncing data between multiple machines in Windows 95. The My Briefcase aimed to sync files between a laptop and desktop machine, and in modern releases of Windows, it’s all cloud-powered thanks to Microsoft’s OneDrive storage service. Microsoft even introduced user profile support in Windows 95 to allow multiple family members to sign in and have their own separate profiles with links and applications. If you weren’t happy with all the new features of Windows 95 then you could have purchased Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 at the time. It included the Internet Jumpstart Kit (an early version of Internet Explorer), theme support, and a number of system utilities. Subsequent updates to Windows 95 also introduced new features before Windows 98 arrived three years later to improve things even more.
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