Microsoft Windows 95 Available  − 24 August, 1995

"On August 24, 1995, Windows 95 was released in a buying fever so great that even consumers without home computers bought copies of the program.  Code-named Chicago, Windows 95 was considered very user-friendly. It included an integrated TCP/IP stack, dial-up networking, and long filename support. It was also the first version of Windows that did not require MS-DOS to be installed beforehand."

Retrieved on September 18th, 2007 from http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/Windows_3.htm

Submitted by James Korycinski  Fall, 2007