Windows 3.x had no such functionality, nor did the Macintosh at the time. The Windows 95 taskbar stretched across the bottom of the screen (as it does now) providing a compact, but sophisticated way to manage tasks across multiple application windows. The Start menu also gave rise to some comic confusion, as shown in this August 1995 New York Times review, which lamented, “Where is the Shut Down option? On the Start button, of course!” Microsoft featured the Start button prominently in much of its advertising and touted it as a simple way for anyone to “start” using their Windows PC. The Start menu served as a concise and logical replacement for the Program Manager in Windows 3.x to organize and launch installed applications. If you’ve used Windows in the last 25 years, you’re familiar with the iconic Start menu and taskbar, both of which originated in Windows 95. RELATED: Remembering Windows 2000, Microsoft's Forgotten Masterpiece The Birth of the Start Menu and Taskbar It didn’t fully replace the DOS-based Windows 9x series until Windows XP launched in 2001. The Windows NT line only began to bridge the professional/consumer divide with Windows 2000 five years later. On the downside, being based on MS-DOS made Windows 95 prone to frustrating crashes (largely due to memory management conflicts), especially when compared to something like Microsoft’s Windows NT.
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