Yes, that's right. Windows 8 created huge compatibility issues making one-time disposable items out of many programs and apps. It failed completely to be an operating system for mobile phones and suchlike devices. It made updates mandatory. The latter turns its users into sheeple; it creates backdoors also. The newer Windows 10 and 11 are just the same. They also get incredibly bloated over time. Many years ago I bought a laptop on Windows 10 for my mum and it immediately starts to update with Windows 10 getting more and more space on the SSD: from about 15 GB it went to 20 GB and then to 25. It demanded these updates like several times a week. It's crazy. It's during shutdown but it's still crazy and annoying. Simply put, it's a bloatware that constantly demands updates and refuse to function otherwise. I hate it. Who did it definitely should be fired. They basically turned Windows into Apple. It's not too bad though. At least it is compatible with most programs and stuff. It's still not as restrictive as Apple. I guess it's alright but I still kinda hate it: those mandatory things imposed on us and that *terrible planned obsolescence thing*. I guess they deliberately do this stuff so that we buy new products all the time, or I can say *they simply don't care. It's just basically saying: you should throw old stuff into the garbage and buy a new one or update the program immediately once it's available.* I hate it. I prefer buying and updating when *I* deem it necessary, not the other way round!
I was 7 years old when my father scheduled a Saturday night event at home just to try Windows 95 in our 486 DX2 PC. I still remember clearly him asking me to pass the next floppy disk during the installation process and I could not wait to the end to see if the MS Paint had new features :D
UPDATE (1/27/2023): It appears that Jay has also suffered a motorcycle accident just now, not long after the fire incident. I find it really concerning and ominous for both of these events to happen on such short notice. EDIT (2/10/2023): I haven't paid much attention to the news regarding Jay's condition, but it seems he's back up again, albeit obviously more beat up then before. Original message from 11/14/2022: My condolences go out to Jay Leno who recently suffered a fire accident while working on one of his vintage automobiles. I might not care much for his comedic acts, but he's a really cool guy to be around having a passion for restoring cars, and no person should have to endure such pain. Hoping he recovers well soon. EDIT (11/25/2022): He appears to be back up on his feet now, albeit with the lingering injuries still sadly visible on his face. Good to see he's doing better anyhow.
What a blast of a presentation! I remember being a kid getting my first ever PC with Windows 95 pre-installed. Oh man the memories, it all started there.
"Simple and painless!" - if you bought a new PC alongside with it, because it didn´t run on your old one. I remember having witnessed this whole presentation at a Microsoft office in Dresden, Germany in the 90s. A friend of mine had gotten his hands on two tickets and invited me to go there with him. I didn´t understand too much English, at the time and I didn´t even know who Jay Leno is, but I also remember the whole thing to have been great fun, anyway...and I also remember that the canapés served after the video presentation were just miraculous^^ Rewatching this after about 25 years feels just awesome, I have a whole lot of old memories from this period popping up that are not directly linked to this event, but came in tow...it´s absolutely hilarious, thank you very much for the upload!
As of writing this, today is the 27th anniversary of Windows 95. I know that calling out against "shameless plugs" is the trendy thing to do nowadays, but there's something I want you to know about. As an archivist, I have to invest lots of time and dedication (and hot dollars) into preserving legacy media in the best possible quality I can. However, I've noticed that some people have taken my VHS rips and reposted them elsewhere on UA-cam and other platforms, especially this launch event. Granted, I didn't make it, and I certainly wasn't involved in the development of Windows 95 or part of the event, but there almost certainly wouldn't have been another shot at obtaining a hard copy of this historic event for ages. Microsoft also never intended to publicly display the full tape after the fact. I'm not exaggerating when I say you'd have much better chances of obtaining a dual Pentium II Xeon motherboard with the necessary retention brackets - among the rarest kinds of motherboards to exist, and something my friend Kugee had been trying to obtain for years before finally securing one. With eBay's landscape being more vicious than it ever has before, it is now often incredibly hard to acquire even the simplest antiquated things - video cards, video tapes, or, hell, even game cartridges. When I found an auction listing for the Windows 95 launch event, me and Kugee knew that there probably wasn't going to be a second chance at acquiring such a thing. At best, it would've been ripped with inferior quality, but worse yet, it could've been scalped (relisted for $2,000 or more), or just sat on and dangled like a worm right between a fish's beady little eyes. I am uncompromising in my efforts to get video tapes archived in their purest form. I don't implant watermarks, intros, or those goofy "hey dude like and subscribe" remarks. In return, I kindly ask that you cite me, Blue Horizon, and/or my outlets if you wish to use this footage for your own projects: archive.org/details/@blue_horizon_137 blueosmuseum.com Seeing that some people have gone and reuploaded my VHS rips on their channels without giving proper credit is unfair to me, as I was the one who made the effort of acquiring and digitizing them for others to freely enjoy. The only reason why this upload is on UA-cam is because we anticipated that someone else would try to swoop in and take all the thunder, to which outlets like Vice and Gizmodo (more like Gizmojo) would then have attributed it to the wrong person. But upscaling and encoding videos to 1080p just to get deinterlaced 60 FPS accepted here puts a very heavy load on my CPU, hence it can take more than an *entire day* for a two-hour VHS tape to encode in that resolution. UA-cam is not a suitable platform for archival, as it refuses to permit 60 FPS for videos encoded below 720p, thus refusing to allow said framerate for resolutions like 480p, which is a much more sensible option close to the NTSC specification. As groundbreaking of an archival that this is, it's only a small part of what I do. I have tons more to share on my Internet Archive page, including CD-ROMs of prerelease Windows builds, OEM PC recovery sets, and other kinds of niche software, as well as yet more VHS rips - some which have nothing to do about computers, and even a couple of scans of Windows 95 prerelease books so far. For close to five years, I have also been undergoing an effort to review every single prerelease build of Windows out there (prior to Windows 8 anyway) in the open along with others who have been involved in the Blue OS Museum. Additionally, pieces of software like Plus! as well as other operating systems such as OS/2 and numerous third-party shells are planned to get their own coverage some point down the line. In any case, there's still a couple more segments of the Windows 95 Traincast series which I will get around to publishing sometime later this month. These next two have some REALLY good stuff in them, including actual footage of the World Wide Web as it was in 1995 (I've published some clips of this on my channel already), as well as a largely forgotten, let alone poorly documented networking-related feature of Windows that stuck out to us when we screened it privately. Kugee plans to cover this feature on his own site as well as part of an upcoming thing of his involving self-hosted videos; there is a chance you may have heard of the name before somewhere. He's also created a heavily customized distribution of Windows 95 called Windows 95D Lite, which comes with tons of drivers and updates to make it easier to get it running on any of your older computers (particularly those from 1996 to 2000). By default, it doesn't come with any extra fancy cosmetics (and is in fact cleaner than Microsoft's official distributions, removing the Microsoft Network component and much of Internet Explorer 3), but I have contributed a theme called "Blue Riverside" to it that can optionally be installed alongside plenty of others from Microsoft Plus. It's available to download here: razorback95.com/projects/win95dl Apart from all that, while this launch tape surfacing may very well be as good as anything can get in regard to digitizing software-related tapes, we look forward to innovating further in legacy computing - continuing to grow our sites, turning up more revelations in the history of older Windows releases, and one day delivering brand new software designed with old hardware platforms in mind for you to enjoy. Thank you for taking the time to watch the tape in its entirety. And remember, the RTM date is not August 15th!
It was only this morning while at work I was looking for something random, I already can't remember what. Saw an article for this video. Came here cause I thought "What are they talking about, I know I've seen it before." Then realised it was only clips I'd seen not the whole thing. This is gold. Never knew this channel existed.
I am absolutely honored, to be one of the million of users to be able to use Windows 95 as an operating system back in the days when it was launched. Look at where we are now? What an amazing journey. ❤️
Windows 95 launch was really one of the most important moment in computer history, and it was one of the major breakthrough too: running a graphical user interface with multitasking, multi-treading, protected memory on legacy ms dos environment.
@@PeterJohnson76Amiga OS ran top of legacy MS DOS environment? I don't think so. And obviously there were plenty of multitasking GUI operating systems prior to the Windows 95. Such as Windows NT or OS/2. Amiga was pretty cool for a late-1980s home computer system, but it had its fair share of problems and the OS certainly was not "bulletproof", so to speak.
@@PeterJohnson76 the amiga is dead. win 95 kicked off a revolution that is still going But honestly, comparing an amiga to this software "should throw a compile error and integer overflow in your brain"
@@martinrose9018 Not entirely true. TV has been broadcast in 60i (or 50i in PAL regions) pretty much since the beginning. And yes, 60i isn't equal to 60p, but it still contains the same amount of 60 *movements* per second. The difference is that 60fps is 60 frames per second and 60i is 60 half-frames per second. They look the same on CRTs which can display interlaced content natively, but you'll need to apply a deinterlacing algorithm on it in order to display it on a progressive LCD display. So, after applying such filter, you get 60p from 60i.
@@martinrose9018 Oh sure, there weren't any regular 720p or higher broadcasts until 2004. TV was broadcast at 480i60 for NTSC or 576i50 for PAL. I think the commenter rather referred to the high quality of the video tape rip.
This is very incredible. Finally Microsoft Windows 95 Launch full video much better than short video. Thank you for sharing this video. This is fun to watch.
There is so much cringe in this, I can’t even make it through more than 5 minutes at a time. The ONLY joke that flies is the woman at the 1:00:00 mark who responds to Jay’s lame joke with “probably same way you got your job”, which somehow didn’t seem scripted 😂
It’s so cool to see all of my favorite content creators here on in this comment section. Also, what a absolute great video, thank you for uploading this.
I still like the looks of Windows 95 With "real" buttons to push. MS Plus was also great, with theme flavors for everyone. My favorite was the jungle/nature theme.
Thanks for sharing. I still remember getting my first PC on my 18th birthday , fresh with W95 on it and using the internet on dial up. It's amazing how far we've come
What an era that was...and I loved every second of it. 95, 98, 2000 (even ME) and then on to XP and 7. Really miss it but happy that I was part of that time. Such wonderful and beautiful memories.
@@ishmael2586we had not realised yet how big tech was taking over the control of our lives 😂😂 now we're all wondering if we were right to just embrace everything
We had a 386sx and that was a push as my parents couldn't really afford it but got it for college work here in the UK. Must of been a year or two after the release that we finally upgraded the PC and it came with Win95. Can't remember the specs of that one. What I do remember is being amazed by finally having video and sound. All those years couldn't afford a soundcard so went without. Anyway. What I remember most is Good Times by Edie Brickell. I was amazed by the quality, the video, the sound. That video and song has stuck with me all these years. Get massive nostalgia when hear it.
It was a milestone in history. I was at school, I was 7 years old when the computers with Windows 95 arrived, the following year my parents bought our first Compaq Presario computer. My brother and I are frontend and backend programmers thanks to all this.
@@Zer0.-_ I cannot reboot win 11 without getting a blue screen, taskbar not autohiding correctly 30+ years later. Linux on same computer = no problems.
@@MarquisDeSang Sorry man, but if you're getting blue screens, you've probably got some kind of driver problem or installed something that "touches" kernel. "Linus = no problems." is absolute f*ckin bul*shit, based solely on what you've said, I can guarantee that you have installed some special tools in fresh Win11 install and now surprise surprise, it's broken :)
Wow I can’t believe how good the Windows 1.0 Steve ballmer segment looks. All other copies of it online are just in terrible 240p and low frame rate. This is worth watching just to see Steve doing his over the top behaviour in glorious 60 fps.
Thankfully cameras nowadays are better at taking photos in these kind of conditions so you don’t risk having a seizure watching videos like these where there’s a flash every 1-2 seconds.
Çok güzel bir videoydu. İzlerken eski zamanlara ışınlanmış gibi oldum. O zamanlarda olamamış olsam da iyi bir nostaljiydi. Yükleyip bize izleme şansı verdiğiniz için teşekkür ederim!
I remember watching on VCR and watching now on my phone shows us all that technology has evolved a lot throughout the years Thank you and I appreciate your kindness of this opportunity to see my progress over the years ❤
1:33 Hope you took permission before the "broadcast" 😉 On a serious note - thanks for the upload and taking the effort to digitise this turning point in the history of personal computing
Wow - that brings me back ! Was a kid working in a small shop computer store - those boxes flew off the shelves! '95 was pretty put on a real fresh face on the PC scene
The first computer I purchased came with Windows 95, and all PC related stuff felt like magical to me back then, discovering its inner workings and what not, everything felt fresh and exciting... including installing Internet Explorer for the 1st time!! haha
I can't stand that LGR guy. I bet if he got his hands on this VHS he wouldn't release it. All that guy cares about is how much MONEY he can make for pressing record. This Blue OS guy, on the other hand, did the right thing and uploaded this video in its entirety with no stupid watermarks or anything. Considering how much software and things LGR has access to, when has HE ever done anything like that?
@@nirv I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I think you're under crediting LGR for his track record of archiving software related stuff that he collects. He has an archive.org page that he regularly uploads to here: archive.org/details/@lazygamereviews Hope this clears things up for you.
@@nirv What has LGR failed to release to the internet? You should make a complete list of the items, and then a list of the most desired things he failed to release, then start a campaign to get him to release this stuff.
And now the time is over, MS was able to support all PC -Computers, all can use Windows. 25 years later my company buy 10 boards ASUS RAMPAGEV and 10 modern CPUS I7x6950x 10 core and two yers later after this mega investition (100K) MS Say no Computers with i76950x and no ASUS Bord any more alowed ! WE WORK since 5 years to bring all to linux , never ever we invest in hardware they are in two years no more alowed. And we dont accept the agreement that all datas on PC are Microsoft own
Thank you very much for uploading this video. I would like to share with you that, as I am from Saudi Arabia, we heard about this event in the news too. We speak Arabic, so we have our version of Windows 3.11 in Arabic. When we heard the news, it was like magic to see all these features: Internet, email, and networking. It felt like outer space. Unfortunately, most of these features were not working in our region, so we were left behind for almost another 5 years to truly experience that new era. Nowadays, Bill Gates' vision has come to life. We are all Windows users, at home, at work, and at school. Languages and distance are no longer obstacles. What has happened is a miracle in all measurements, and people talk about computing every day as if it's a natural part of our lives. It's a very huge milestone.
Oh man this gives me an odd sense of nostalgia. My first OS to use was win 3.11 but our first PC had Win98 but I did use Win95 too. Never seen this launch before at all so it's kind of cool to go back.
It feels kinda weird hearing Steve Ballmer’s Windows 1.0 “ad” in stereo and a higher quality after being so used to the low quality audio version circulating the web.
Having worked on big software projects, I could really appreciate introducing the development team at the end. I'm sure to this day they feel amazing. Windows 95 truly did set up the new paradigm.
Can you get more 90’s than the women at 05:45 Also “I’ve had 18 windows open at one time” I can only imaging how mind blown that guy is now with all his chrome tabs open.
59:10 and the clowns at Microsoft today have actually removed this feature in Windows 11, only to have it restored after huge backlash. The ability to put the taskbar on any edge of the screen, also introduced in Windows 95, is still missing in Windows 11.
Incredible that this has eluded the internet for so very long, wow.
Thanks so much for digitizing and sharing this!
LGR! Good to see you saw this too.
leno ran out of money to keep it offline
I couldn't have said it better Clint. What an amazing day!
Love your channel LGR! - from UK here :)
LGR is always surfing the internet in the most random computer places, love your content!
Wow, that's quite a leap from Windows 11 to 95. Can't wait.
😂😂😂
@@ChatGPT1111 thank god there are 56K modems now
@@OLIV3R_YT if only T1 lines were affordable.
If you think about it, Windows 95 is actually easier to use in some parts than 11.
Wait till you see Windows 2000.
This is incredible. Thanks for uploading this!
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Steve Ballmer was only 30 years in that 1986 video but he looked about 55.
He was at the right place at the right time
I had to look twice. I saw a man that looks like it could be Ballmer today, but the video is from 1986 😂
That's what baldness and checked suits will do to ya!
Nebraska!!!!
It's because of the hair style, the quality and the clothing. His face is not that bad.
Windows 95 was genius design , even today we still largely reuse the same interface. While whoever designed Windows 8 should be fired immediately.
Yes, that's right. Windows 8 created huge compatibility issues making one-time disposable items out of many programs and apps. It failed completely to be an operating system for mobile phones and suchlike devices. It made updates mandatory. The latter turns its users into sheeple; it creates backdoors also. The newer Windows 10 and 11 are just the same. They also get incredibly bloated over time. Many years ago I bought a laptop on Windows 10 for my mum and it immediately starts to update with Windows 10 getting more and more space on the SSD: from about 15 GB it went to 20 GB and then to 25. It demanded these updates like several times a week. It's crazy. It's during shutdown but it's still crazy and annoying. Simply put, it's a bloatware that constantly demands updates and refuse to function otherwise. I hate it. Who did it definitely should be fired. They basically turned Windows into Apple. It's not too bad though. At least it is compatible with most programs and stuff. It's still not as restrictive as Apple. I guess it's alright but I still kinda hate it: those mandatory things imposed on us and that *terrible planned obsolescence thing*. I guess they deliberately do this stuff so that we buy new products all the time, or I can say *they simply don't care. It's just basically saying: you should throw old stuff into the garbage and buy a new one or update the program immediately once it's available.* I hate it. I prefer buying and updating when *I* deem it necessary, not the other way round!
I was 7 years old when my father scheduled a Saturday night event at home just to try Windows 95 in our 486 DX2 PC. I still remember clearly him asking me to pass the next floppy disk during the installation process and I could not wait to the end to see if the MS Paint had new features :D
90 minute installation time?
eu tmb haha
My first computer 486dx2 66. I was thrilled when the windows 95 launched!
@Brian Scramlin AYO 8GB RAM ?!
@@sharl16338MB.
This is very nearly the most 90s thing I've ever seen. Jay Leno, pleated oversized slacks, Clinton jokes, retro tech. I love it.
Retro tech? A printer driver installing without an error is alien technology still
Difference is one can now experience the self-immolation of Windows 11 in ultra-wide 8K. The future is now!
Don’t forget OJ
You can see how excited everyone was, they knew it was a serious change to a modern era.
No matter what OS you use, it's great to be able to look back on historical moments. Thanks for preserving this!
Same as this m.ua-cam.com/video/idNweKK7sBU/v-deo.html
UPDATE (1/27/2023): It appears that Jay has also suffered a motorcycle accident just now, not long after the fire incident. I find it really concerning and ominous for both of these events to happen on such short notice.
EDIT (2/10/2023): I haven't paid much attention to the news regarding Jay's condition, but it seems he's back up again, albeit obviously more beat up then before.
Original message from 11/14/2022:
My condolences go out to Jay Leno who recently suffered a fire accident while working on one of his vintage automobiles. I might not care much for his comedic acts, but he's a really cool guy to be around having a passion for restoring cars, and no person should have to endure such pain. Hoping he recovers well soon.
EDIT (11/25/2022): He appears to be back up on his feet now, albeit with the lingering injuries still sadly visible on his face. Good to see he's doing better anyhow.
Yea bro ✨
Sadly, he suffered a motorcycle accident recently.
can’t imagine my life without computer, from using win 95 to win 11, can’t forget those days. windows xp was a big change.
What a blast of a presentation! I remember being a kid getting my first ever PC with Windows 95 pre-installed. Oh man the memories, it all started there.
You still on a PC or did you go weak ass cell phone?
@@nirv Lol still using a PC of course
Haha same! So thankful for my dad picking up an HP Vectra
Pc master race
"Simple and painless!" - if you bought a new PC alongside with it, because it didn´t run on your old one. I remember having witnessed this whole presentation at a Microsoft office in Dresden, Germany in the 90s. A friend of mine had gotten his hands on two tickets and invited me to go there with him. I didn´t understand too much English, at the time and I didn´t even know who Jay Leno is, but I also remember the whole thing to have been great fun, anyway...and I also remember that the canapés served after the video presentation were just miraculous^^ Rewatching this after about 25 years feels just awesome, I have a whole lot of old memories from this period popping up that are not directly linked to this event, but came in tow...it´s absolutely hilarious, thank you very much for the upload!
This sounds fantastic. I need to upgrade my PC to Windows 95! 😄
Its are actually an upgrade when compared to Windows nowdays...
@@ayanforever imagine how fast that'd run on modern hardware.
everything would be instant
@@ayanforever LOL !
Only 73 years to Windows (20)95!
@@stephenkamenar it won't run if your CPU is faster than 2GHz.
Thank you for doing the noble thing and uploading this in it's entirety with no stupid watermark.
As of writing this, today is the 27th anniversary of Windows 95. I know that calling out against "shameless plugs" is the trendy thing to do nowadays, but there's something I want you to know about.
As an archivist, I have to invest lots of time and dedication (and hot dollars) into preserving legacy media in the best possible quality I can. However, I've noticed that some people have taken my VHS rips and reposted them elsewhere on UA-cam and other platforms, especially this launch event. Granted, I didn't make it, and I certainly wasn't involved in the development of Windows 95 or part of the event, but there almost certainly wouldn't have been another shot at obtaining a hard copy of this historic event for ages. Microsoft also never intended to publicly display the full tape after the fact. I'm not exaggerating when I say you'd have much better chances of obtaining a dual Pentium II Xeon motherboard with the necessary retention brackets - among the rarest kinds of motherboards to exist, and something my friend Kugee had been trying to obtain for years before finally securing one.
With eBay's landscape being more vicious than it ever has before, it is now often incredibly hard to acquire even the simplest antiquated things - video cards, video tapes, or, hell, even game cartridges. When I found an auction listing for the Windows 95 launch event, me and Kugee knew that there probably wasn't going to be a second chance at acquiring such a thing. At best, it would've been ripped with inferior quality, but worse yet, it could've been scalped (relisted for $2,000 or more), or just sat on and dangled like a worm right between a fish's beady little eyes.
I am uncompromising in my efforts to get video tapes archived in their purest form. I don't implant watermarks, intros, or those goofy "hey dude like and subscribe" remarks. In return, I kindly ask that you cite me, Blue Horizon, and/or my outlets if you wish to use this footage for your own projects:
archive.org/details/@blue_horizon_137
blueosmuseum.com
Seeing that some people have gone and reuploaded my VHS rips on their channels without giving proper credit is unfair to me, as I was the one who made the effort of acquiring and digitizing them for others to freely enjoy. The only reason why this upload is on UA-cam is because we anticipated that someone else would try to swoop in and take all the thunder, to which outlets like Vice and Gizmodo (more like Gizmojo) would then have attributed it to the wrong person.
But upscaling and encoding videos to 1080p just to get deinterlaced 60 FPS accepted here puts a very heavy load on my CPU, hence it can take more than an *entire day* for a two-hour VHS tape to encode in that resolution. UA-cam is not a suitable platform for archival, as it refuses to permit 60 FPS for videos encoded below 720p, thus refusing to allow said framerate for resolutions like 480p, which is a much more sensible option close to the NTSC specification.
As groundbreaking of an archival that this is, it's only a small part of what I do. I have tons more to share on my Internet Archive page, including CD-ROMs of prerelease Windows builds, OEM PC recovery sets, and other kinds of niche software, as well as yet more VHS rips - some which have nothing to do about computers, and even a couple of scans of Windows 95 prerelease books so far. For close to five years, I have also been undergoing an effort to review every single prerelease build of Windows out there (prior to Windows 8 anyway) in the open along with others who have been involved in the Blue OS Museum. Additionally, pieces of software like Plus! as well as other operating systems such as OS/2 and numerous third-party shells are planned to get their own coverage some point down the line.
In any case, there's still a couple more segments of the Windows 95 Traincast series which I will get around to publishing sometime later this month. These next two have some REALLY good stuff in them, including actual footage of the World Wide Web as it was in 1995 (I've published some clips of this on my channel already), as well as a largely forgotten, let alone poorly documented networking-related feature of Windows that stuck out to us when we screened it privately. Kugee plans to cover this feature on his own site as well as part of an upcoming thing of his involving self-hosted videos; there is a chance you may have heard of the name before somewhere.
He's also created a heavily customized distribution of Windows 95 called Windows 95D Lite, which comes with tons of drivers and updates to make it easier to get it running on any of your older computers (particularly those from 1996 to 2000). By default, it doesn't come with any extra fancy cosmetics (and is in fact cleaner than Microsoft's official distributions, removing the Microsoft Network component and much of Internet Explorer 3), but I have contributed a theme called "Blue Riverside" to it that can optionally be installed alongside plenty of others from Microsoft Plus. It's available to download here: razorback95.com/projects/win95dl
Apart from all that, while this launch tape surfacing may very well be as good as anything can get in regard to digitizing software-related tapes, we look forward to innovating further in legacy computing - continuing to grow our sites, turning up more revelations in the history of older Windows releases, and one day delivering brand new software designed with old hardware platforms in mind for you to enjoy. Thank you for taking the time to watch the tape in its entirety.
And remember, the RTM date is not August 15th!
It was only this morning while at work I was looking for something random, I already can't remember what. Saw an article for this video. Came here cause I thought "What are they talking about, I know I've seen it before." Then realised it was only clips I'd seen not the whole thing. This is gold. Never knew this channel existed.
You should have pinned this comment
I am absolutely honored, to be one of the million of users to be able to use Windows 95 as an operating system back in the days when it was launched. Look at where we are now? What an amazing journey. ❤️
Wow. Steve Ballmer was like the Saul Goodman of computers
Except in Nebraska.
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lol true!
Windows 95 launch was really one of the most important moment in computer history, and it was one of the major breakthrough too: running a graphical user interface with multitasking, multi-treading, protected memory on legacy ms dos environment.
Not so, the Amiga was doing that about a decade earlier.
hhahahahahahahah
@@PeterJohnson76Amiga OS ran top of legacy MS DOS environment? I don't think so. And obviously there were plenty of multitasking GUI operating systems prior to the Windows 95. Such as Windows NT or OS/2. Amiga was pretty cool for a late-1980s home computer system, but it had its fair share of problems and the OS certainly was not "bulletproof", so to speak.
It hit in 1995, the YEAR of the Internet.
@@PeterJohnson76 the amiga is dead. win 95 kicked off a revolution that is still going
But honestly, comparing an amiga to this software "should throw a compile error and integer overflow in your brain"
Wow, great capture. The sound quality is phenomenal!
VHS/Betamax Hi-fi Stereo!
@@Pixelsplasher Well which is it!?
Slash! I don't know,@@VinnytotheK .
@@Pixelsplasher Ah, lol true.
HD, 60fps, Full video. This is an absolute gem. Thank you so much for uploading this, now I can see Steve Ballmer, Bill, and Jay in full glory haha
Err please. This massively pre-dates both HD and 60fps!
@@martinrose9018 Not entirely true. TV has been broadcast in 60i (or 50i in PAL regions) pretty much since the beginning. And yes, 60i isn't equal to 60p, but it still contains the same amount of 60 *movements* per second. The difference is that 60fps is 60 frames per second and 60i is 60 half-frames per second. They look the same on CRTs which can display interlaced content natively, but you'll need to apply a deinterlacing algorithm on it in order to display it on a progressive LCD display. So, after applying such filter, you get 60p from 60i.
@@Wilczequ But what about HD ?
@@martinrose9018 Oh sure, there weren't any regular 720p or higher broadcasts until 2004. TV was broadcast at 480i60 for NTSC or 576i50 for PAL. I think the commenter rather referred to the high quality of the video tape rip.
@@Wilczequ Ahh, HQ rather than HD.
You definitely cannot un-see this. Amazing.
Israel Keyes was an American hero.
@@xxxjoseph7362 FBI, right here ^
So bad it was good.
Sweet video. It’s like a time capsule!
All the people who hated this product were all Apple users in Nebraska
Oh wow, I’ve waited so long to see this! Thanks for sharing. 😄
my mom needs upgrade to windows 11
I can't believe I watched the entire thing. Jay Leno's pop culture jokes ring in my skull. Thanks for the upload!
This is very incredible. Finally Microsoft Windows 95 Launch full video much better than short video. Thank you for sharing this video. This is fun to watch.
Good old Jay, making computing accessible to all! This is why people were buying it who didn't even own a computer
Thank you so much! I remember watching this live and could never find the full launch event until now!
35 años después viendo el vídeo con los nietos
How excited were you when the launch happened?
The Start menu is immortal. Every time they try to remove it, they eventually return it back.
There is so much cringe in this, I can’t even make it through more than 5 minutes at a time.
The ONLY joke that flies is the woman at the 1:00:00 mark who responds to Jay’s lame joke with “probably same way you got your job”, which somehow didn’t seem scripted 😂
It’s so cool to see all of my favorite content creators here on in this comment section. Also, what a absolute great video, thank you for uploading this.
Wonderful to see this in full. It brings back a lot of memories. Thank you for sharing!
I still like the looks of Windows 95
With "real" buttons to push.
MS Plus was also great, with theme flavors for everyone. My favorite was the jungle/nature theme.
Jay Leno is the perfect embodiment of 90s Microsoft.
Annoying and never self-reflective. Agreed.
Thanks for uploading! Oh man, the 90's is so fun
Back when the OS did not spy on you.
Thank you so much for uploading this! It's amazing to finally have this preserved.
Thanks for sharing. I still remember getting my first PC on my 18th birthday , fresh with W95 on it and using the internet on dial up. It's amazing how far we've come
True here we are on windows 11 with fast m2 drives
I bet you went straight looking for porn.
Absolutely wonderful to see this! Thanks for making this available!
What an era that was...and I loved every second of it. 95, 98, 2000 (even ME) and then on to XP and 7. Really miss it but happy that I was part of that time. Such wonderful and beautiful memories.
Can you tell us why you miss it and why it was such a good era?
@@ishmael2586we had not realised yet how big tech was taking over the control of our lives 😂😂 now we're all wondering if we were right to just embrace everything
I have been wanting to watch this for ages! Thank you so much for uploading this, this is amazing!
Thanks a lot for sharing! I still remember like it was yesterday when I switched from 3.1 to 95 :)
no Blue Screen Of Death on this demo ? Amazing
We had a 386sx and that was a push as my parents couldn't really afford it but got it for college work here in the UK. Must of been a year or two after the release that we finally upgraded the PC and it came with Win95. Can't remember the specs of that one. What I do remember is being amazed by finally having video and sound. All those years couldn't afford a soundcard so went without.
Anyway. What I remember most is Good Times by Edie Brickell. I was amazed by the quality, the video, the sound. That video and song has stuck with me all these years. Get massive nostalgia when hear it.
Cool. Windows 95 was a beast OS in 1995. Finally the launch event is now in high-quality.
I am quite sure at that time J Leno couldn´t even know how to turn on/ off the pc ;-)
It was a milestone in history. I was at school, I was 7 years old when the computers with Windows 95 arrived, the following year my parents bought our first Compaq Presario computer. My brother and I are frontend and backend programmers thanks to all this.
1995 was the Year when the INTERNET first went Commercial.
Yeah and thanks to all of this and AI revolution you'll soon be out of a job lol
I've been looking for the full presentation for years! THANK YOU!
The advertising was so intense for Windows 95, you can tell they put so much effort into appealing to the standard people of back then.
I contributed code to every Microsoft OS between Windows 98 and Windows 7. It has always grated me that Win95 eluded me :-)
As a software developer migrating Lacerte Tax from DOS to Windows 95 initially, this was the time to be alive. Especially if you hate sleep!
Back when Microsoft took the time to test their operating systems before releasing them to the public 😂
“That’s why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet!”
And their DEV tools and SDK did not suck.
Lol, did any of you use Windows 95? What an absolute mess with viruses. It is no where near as stable as what we get today
@@Zer0.-_ I cannot reboot win 11 without getting a blue screen, taskbar not autohiding correctly 30+ years later. Linux on same computer = no problems.
@@MarquisDeSang Sorry man, but if you're getting blue screens, you've probably got some kind of driver problem or installed something that "touches" kernel. "Linus = no problems." is absolute f*ckin bul*shit, based solely on what you've said, I can guarantee that you have installed some special tools in fresh Win11 install and now surprise surprise, it's broken :)
Thanks for the decent quality version of the Windows 1.0 spoof ad.
Wow I can’t believe how good the Windows 1.0 Steve ballmer segment looks. All other copies of it online are just in terrible 240p and low frame rate. This is worth watching just to see Steve doing his over the top behaviour in glorious 60 fps.
Can you imagine getting a fake mail on the internet? I certainly can't.
Hello I'm mark zuckerberg you have to forward this massage to 10 people if you don't want your Facebook account to be deleted
The first steps of computing were golden days, i sadly didn't experience this era, but i can see how it was memorable anyway.
I'm sitting here and watching this 27 years later on Windows 11.
What a great find. I had only a few minutes of. I always wanted to see the whole presentation. Thank you so much
Unforgettable the update from Windows for Workgroups to Windows 95. What a leap! The video brings back great memories! 🤩🤗
1995 - 'I've had 18 windows open at one time'
2020 - me with 100 browser tabs open across 3 browsers at once ;)
This is gold, thanks for uploading.
I was at the 1995 showing of this! It was at the local college business development center in New York State. It was exciting.
I was 8 years kid when this was lunched! Now I am 37 and using windows 11 :)
4:27 Great to see that famous Windows 1.0 comercial in High Quality! Thanks, Blue OS Museum for finding this full presentation!
Thankfully cameras nowadays are better at taking photos in these kind of conditions so you don’t risk having a seizure watching videos like these where there’s a flash every 1-2 seconds.
finally a high quality upload of the iconic steve ballmer windows commercial from 1986
did that commercail even air on tv?
Çok güzel bir videoydu. İzlerken eski zamanlara ışınlanmış gibi oldum. O zamanlarda olamamış olsam da iyi bir nostaljiydi. Yükleyip bize izleme şansı verdiğiniz için teşekkür ederim!
I remember watching on VCR and watching now on my phone shows us all that technology has evolved a lot throughout the years
Thank you and I appreciate your kindness of this opportunity to see my progress over the years ❤
Oh man! That's amazing! Thanks for sharing this!
1:33 Hope you took permission before the "broadcast" 😉
On a serious note - thanks for the upload and taking the effort to digitise this turning point in the history of personal computing
Wow - that brings me back ! Was a kid working in a small shop computer store - those boxes flew off the shelves! '95 was pretty put on a real fresh face on the PC scene
I love the way the printer is installed with no problems what so ever lol!! - The drivers are obviously carefully selected
I love this gem! Thanks for uploading!
The first computer I purchased came with Windows 95, and all PC related stuff felt like magical to me back then, discovering its inner workings and what not, everything felt fresh and exciting... including installing Internet Explorer for the 1st time!! haha
After several years, we finally have it.
It all starts here
Great times with Intel Pentium MMX and 133 MHz pure power
Great work and I agree with my bud LGR below. This gave me the ultimate nerdgasm while I sit here playing with a vintage Windows 95 machine!
I can't stand that LGR guy. I bet if he got his hands on this VHS he wouldn't release it. All that guy cares about is how much MONEY he can make for pressing record. This Blue OS guy, on the other hand, did the right thing and uploaded this video in its entirety with no stupid watermarks or anything. Considering how much software and things LGR has access to, when has HE ever done anything like that?
@@nirv I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I think you're under crediting LGR for his track record of archiving software related stuff that he collects. He has an archive.org page that he regularly uploads to here: archive.org/details/@lazygamereviews
Hope this clears things up for you.
@@BlueOSMuseum yeah I've seen it but it's nothing close to what he has. Are we sure all of it's released?
@@nirv What has LGR failed to release to the internet? You should make a complete list of the items, and then a list of the most desired things he failed to release, then start a campaign to get him to release this stuff.
@@alansacks9815 Panzer Dragoon for NV1 for example. Any of the full, rare PC games he has.
Wow this is amazing!! First Windows I had was 3.11, 95 was a game changer!!
OMG! Tkanks for uploading! Tears in my eyes
Pretty typical Microsoft, gets to the end of the countdown - and still nothing happens.
It's incredible the hype over this, given the Amiga and several other platforms were light years ahead of this.
If you're from cs188, here's the time stamp:
4:25
Can’t wait to order this on Christmas
AMAZING! Thanks for sharing this with us all! WOW
I totally remember this trackball thing back then at 5:56 :D Anyway big thanks for uploading this!
And now the time is over, MS was able to support all PC -Computers, all can use Windows. 25 years later my company buy 10 boards ASUS RAMPAGEV and 10 modern CPUS I7x6950x 10 core and two yers later after this mega investition (100K) MS Say no Computers with i76950x and no ASUS Bord any more alowed ! WE WORK since 5 years to bring all to linux , never ever we invest in hardware they are in two years no more alowed. And we dont accept the agreement that all datas on PC are Microsoft own
I need to wait another year before upgrading my system to run Windows 95 smoothly.
Thank you very much for uploading this video. I would like to share with you that, as I am from Saudi Arabia, we heard about this event in the news too. We speak Arabic, so we have our version of Windows 3.11 in Arabic. When we heard the news, it was like magic to see all these features: Internet, email, and networking. It felt like outer space. Unfortunately, most of these features were not working in our region, so we were left behind for almost another 5 years to truly experience that new era. Nowadays, Bill Gates' vision has come to life. We are all Windows users, at home, at work, and at school. Languages and distance are no longer obstacles. What has happened is a miracle in all measurements, and people talk about computing every day as if it's a natural part of our lives. It's a very huge milestone.
Oh man this gives me an odd sense of nostalgia. My first OS to use was win 3.11 but our first PC had Win98 but I did use Win95 too. Never seen this launch before at all so it's kind of cool to go back.
It feels kinda weird hearing Steve Ballmer’s Windows 1.0 “ad” in stereo and a higher quality after being so used to the low quality audio version circulating the web.
Thank you for sharing! It's such a joy to watch this!
Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed having a look back.
Having worked on big software projects, I could really appreciate introducing the development team at the end. I'm sure to this day they feel amazing. Windows 95 truly did set up the new paradigm.
@5:57 "I've had 18 windows open at one time." 🤣
found you, thank you for share this video!
Can you get more 90’s than the women at 05:45
Also “I’ve had 18 windows open at one time” I can only imaging how mind blown that guy is now with all his chrome tabs open.
Finally we have been blessed with a higher quality version of the steve Ballmer windows 1.0 commercial
59:10 and the clowns at Microsoft today have actually removed this feature in Windows 11, only to have it restored after huge backlash. The ability to put the taskbar on any edge of the screen, also introduced in Windows 95, is still missing in Windows 11.
Back when Microsoft keynotes were actually better than Apple keynotes.
I remember being at CompUSA at midnight during the Windows 95 rollout...
…luckily the R2D2 was doing a good job so we can celebrate this video in 2022.
The legend has it that the guy upgrading the 486 computer to Windows 95 is still waiting for his coffee today :D
The most Vaporwave concert we've ever seen...