Windows 95

Type: Product

Windows 95

As of November 2026, Windows 95 has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Ezra Klein Show (Oct 2025). Cited to illustrate Eno's broad influence on everyday sound design (the Windows 95 startup sound).

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft, released to manufacturing on July 14, 1995, and to retail on August 24, 1995. The first of the Windows 9x line of operating systems, Windows 95, which replaced Windows 3.1, merged Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system and Microsoft Windows graphical user shell into a single product, removing the requirement to install Windows on top of a separate copy of MS-DOS, and featured major changes to the core components of the opera

Windows 95 at a glance
Mentioned in1 episode on 1 podcast (as of November 2026)
First heardOct 2025 on The Ezra Klein Show
CompanyMicrosoft
MakerMicrosoft

Who talks about Windows 95 on podcasts?

Ezra Klein brought up Windows 95; the most recent mention was Oct 2025 on The Ezra Klein Show.