![]() ![]() It licensed The Rolling Stones’ hit single Start Me Up for a staggering $10m (give or take) and the song accompanied countless promotions in the lead-up to the big day. In a moment of marketing clarity, Microsoft went all-in on the Start button. There were a range of other Windows 95 features that were eventually added, most of which carry through to today – and were not all exclusive to Windows: right-clicked context menus the desktop as a folder and the My Computer icon shortcuts the recycle bin a better way to get at files and settings through Windows Explorer and Device Manager and the much-touted Plug and Play which tried to automate the process of installing drivers and getting things like printers working without much fuss. ![]() (And yeah, we know RISC OS, at least, had an icon bar before Windows 95 got its task bar it didn't quite have a Start button, though, unless you installed one of many third-party apps.) The Start button has informed pretty much everyone’s understanding of how to interact with a Microsoft OS and Redmond, to its credit, knew it had something good on its hands. And the biggest was the Start button which, even a quarter of a century later still exists albeit after various redesigns and rethinks. In a move that cemented its place in computing history and made Bill Gates the richest man on Earth, Microsoft stopped stealing its ideas from the likes of Xerox PARC and Apple – and came up with a few of its own, forming Windows 95.
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