Windows 95 On This Day in History

This day in history: Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America on this day in 1995. Win95 was the first operating system I used, and it was so expensive I had to take out a bank loan to buy one. Microsoft's spent $200 million advertising Windows 95, and this included using the the RollingStones song "Start Me Up". The Empire State Building was lit to match the colors of the Windows logo, and a 100 m (330 ft) banner was hung down the side of the CN Tower in Toronto. A 30-minute promotional video, labeled a "cyber sitcom," featuring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, was also released to showcase the features of Windows 95. In short time Windows 95 became the most used OS in the world.