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Why would anyone want to run Windows 95 in this day and age, when the advanced hardware in use would make it nigh impossible to boot the system? Well, perhaps because one can.

Microsoft has released patches for 11 security vulnerabilities in its products, six of which the company rates as critical.

Windows 95 released on 24 August 1995, was a big change from Windows 1.x, 2.x and 3.x – it was the end of Windows running over MS-DOS and the beginning of a complete operating system.

Had Microsoft actually released Windows 9, a great deal of applications would actually fail due to archaic version testing routines.

I was drawn to a couple of interesting graphs that paint an interesting picture of Microsoft's frequent skirmishes with the Internet.  Whether or not they "get it" is still up for grabs.