* 1995 – Arfa Karim, Pakistani Youngest Microsoft Professional ( d. 2012 )

Microsoft marketing adopted Windows 95 as the product name for Chicago when it was released on 24 August 1995.

The time period is 1993 – 1995, at a time when Microsoft has reached dominance in the software industry and emerged victorious from the " Look & Feel " lawsuit by Apple Inc., a company that had at times seemed in danger of falling apart.

By 1995, Windows 95 negotiations between IBM and Microsoft which were already difficult stalled when IBM purchased Lotus SmartSuite which would have directly competed with Microsoft Office.

Microsoft released Direct3D in 1995, which eventually became the main competitor of OpenGL.

Microsoft developed a media player known as ActiveMovie in 1995 that allowed streaming media and included a proprietary streaming format, which was the precursor to the streaming feature later in Windows Media Player 6. 4 in 1999.

Microsoft licensed Spyglass Mosaic in 1995 for US $ 2 million, modified it, and renamed it Internet Explorer.

In 1995, Microsoft released ActiveMovie with DirectX Media SDK.

Nonetheless, on January 11, 1995, Microsoft announced that it had licensed the Mosaic technology from Spyglass, which it would use to create Internet Explorer.

On August 15, 1995, Microsoft debuted its own web browser Internet Explorer 1 for Windows 95.

Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product, released in March 1995, although widely publicised prior to that date under the codename " Utopia ", which provided a new, non-technical interface to desktop computing operations.

An edition of Microsoft Bob was bundled with Gateway 2000 around 1995, the version bundled with Gateway computers contained Gateway branding on the Login screen.

Microsoft did not grant IBM OEM rights for Windows 95 until 15 minutes prior to the release of Windows 95, August 24, 1995.

Microsoft bought RenderMorphics in February 1995, bringing Keondjian on board to implement a 3D graphics engine for Windows 95.

The release of Windows 95 in August 1995 was the beginning of the end for Novell and its plans to compete with Microsoft.

A re-packaged version of SimCity 2000, SimCity 2000 Special Edition, was released in 1995 for Microsoft Windows and DOS PCs, partly because the original SimCity 2000 in 1994 could not be run under Microsoft Windows, even in command prompt mode.

* Kyle Geiger, " Inside ODBC ", Microsoft Press, 1995

* 1995 — Microsoft FrontPage 1. 1

In 1995 – 1997, Tandem partnered with Microsoft to implement high-availability features and advanced SQL configurations in clusters of commodity Windows NT machines.

: An earlier version appears as Technical Report MSR-TR-95-06, Microsoft Research, March 1, 1995.

Two programmers from Magnetic Scrolls, Doug Rabson and Servan Keondjian later formed the company RenderMorphics which produced the highly-acclaimed 3D Graphics API Reality Lab In January 1995 another Magnetic Scrolls programmer Steve Lacey joined RenderMorphics and in February of the same year Microsoft acquired the company.

1993 saw a release for PCs with Windows 3. 1 as part of the original Microsoft Arcade package.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

Initially developed ( though not publicly released ) on the Atari ST, the first commercial release was for the 16-bit Microsoft MS-DOS platform and was proprietary.

Version 3. 1. 1 remains an important milestone release being the last version of Euphoria which supports the Microsoft MS-DOS platform.

Microsoft is also working to bring Windows NT onto ARM in the next release of Windows.

In response to the impending release of OS / 2 2. 0, Microsoft developed Windows 3. 1, which included several minor improvements to Windows 3. 0 ( such as display of TrueType scalable fonts, developed jointly with Apple ), but primarily consisted of bugfixes and multimedia support.

Later Microsoft also released Windows 3. 11, a touch-up to Windows 3. 1 which included all of the patches and updates that followed the release of Windows 3. 1 in 1992.

Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft had a double gain from its release: first, it made it impossible for consumers to run Windows 95 on a cheaper, non-Microsoft DOS ; secondly, although traces of DOS were never completely removed from the system and MS DOS 7 would be loaded briefly as a part of the booting process, Windows 95 applications ran solely in 386 enhanced mode, with a flat 32-bit address space and virtual memory.

Microsoft went on to release five different versions of Windows 95:

Microsoft released Windows NT 4. 0 to manufacturing in July 1996, one year after the release of Windows 95.

In 1999, Microsoft released Windows 98 Second Edition, an interim release.

Despite the release of Microsoft Chart, a graphics companion software, Multiplan continued to be outsold by Lotus 1-2-3.

Around 1983, during the development of the first release of Windows, Microsoft had plans to make a Windows version.

An HD version is planned for release in October 2012 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

As the publishers of the Shadowrun role-playing game stated at the time of the video game's release: " Microsoft rewrote the timeline and setting for this game, so it is not in continuity with the tabletop RPG.

VBScript has been installed by default in every desktop release of Microsoft Windows since Windows 98 ; in Windows Server since Windows NT 4. 0 Option Pack ; and optionally with Windows CE ( depending on the device it is installed on ).

The new release includes integration with Microsoft SharePoint and other web services geared towards government and business users.

It is the successor to Windows NT 4. 0, and is the final release of Microsoft Windows to display the " Windows NT " designation.

On October 27, 1998, Microsoft announced that the name of the final version of the operating system would be Windows 2000, a name which referred to its projected release date.

From here, Microsoft issued three release candidates between July and November 1999, and finally released the operating system to partners on December 12, 1999.

Close to the release of Windows 2000 Service Pack 1, Microsoft released Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, targeted at large-scale computing systems with support for 32 processors, on September 29, 2000.

The source code gets wide distribution across the internet, and Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.