Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Aug 2005 20:45 UTC
Windows Microsoft officials have admitted one of their biggest challenges in continuing to grow the company's Windows business is the impression among some of its installed base that older Windows versions are good enough. The users of Windows 95, which turns ten years old on Wednesday, are a case in point. Elsewhere, here is a story about the launch of Windows 95 exactly 10 years ago.
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by on Wed 24th Aug 2005 21:39 UTC

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I use windows 95 on my game server.. Runs UT, doom, ufo 2000 etc games servers perfectly. Not everyone needs the latest and greatest. I never have win95 crash and its lightning fast. As someone mentioned already, theres directx 8 for it and loads of new apps still work on it. If you have a newish video card with opengl support you can run a load of newer games in 95 still ;) I have a voodoo 3 in my tower.

For older gaming, you cant beat win95.

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The main reason I left 95 was it's virtually non-existant support for USB. 98 was better, but it still had problems. Let's not even mention ME. And here I sit at W2K.

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I use my new AMD64 machine to play games, i can play new games in my 20" LCD-monitor and they look good and run very fast ;) . Plus most old games still work on XP, even old Dos games with emulator. So i have far more faster machine that plays all new games and most old games, it's much more stable than any old system and i can always boost it with new parts that WORKS in my system. So throw away your crabby systems and live today, not past.

For old and new gaming, you can't beat fast modern PC with WinXP ;) .

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