The FAA is set to overhaul its ancient air traffic control systems that still uses a combination of Windows 95, floppy disks, and paper cards.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still relies on Windows 95 and floppy disks for air travel, though hopefully not for too much longer.

Whaddaya mean you don't recognise it? It's the Windows 95 start-up sound, and it's recently been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings.

Iconic Windows 95 startup chime added to National Recording Registry The familiar Microsoft sound was composed by ambient music pioneer Brian Eno. By Andrew Paul Published Apr 10, 2025 1:27 PM EDT ...

This week, the Windows 95 chime joined Celine Dion’s “ My Heart Will Go On ” and the soundtrack to Minecraft in earning a place in the National Recording Registry.

The Microsoft Windows 95 reboot chime was selected to be a part of the registry, as was the Minecraft soundtrack. "These are the sounds of America – our wide-ranging history and culture.

CrystalMark Retro 2.0 has just been released and it's a benchmark tool that supports everything from Windows 95 right up to Windows 11.

Writing The Old New Thing blog, he said Windows 95 setup was designed to upgrade systems from three possible starting points – MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows 95 itself.

A former Microsoft executive shared images of the first ever copy of Windows 95, fresh out of the production line. The legacy operating system was released to manufacturing 28 years ago this month.

The first-ever Windows 95 is still out there For collectors, this first-ever edition of Windows 95 is likely to be worth a small fortune. But who still owns this ultra-rare relic?

Windows 95 was one of the biggest PC releases of the 90s, and for good reason -- It laid a lot of the groundwork for how Windows works today.

The first version of Windows with the modern look based on a Start menu, Windows 95 made computing, and internet access in particular, accessible to all.