As Microsoft turns 50, we're looking at the Start menu's changes from its debut in Windows 95, passing through 98, ME, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11.

A former Microsoft employee narrates how he wrote the Windows 95 Start menu. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Windows had already been a prominent player in the home computing scene for a good few years prior to this with its release of Windows 3.0 and its subsequent updates, but Windows 95 was when the ...