Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is finally preparing to refresh its Windows 95-era icons.

Remember the 1992 Windows Paintbrush palette icon? Probably not. Since then, new versions of the operating system have not only changed the underlying mechanics of the software, but the visual ...

Windows gets periodic visual updates, with constantly changing recycling bins, Start menu colors, task bar icons and other prominent ... haven’t been updated since Windows 95 serious.

but the replacement icons look more like equipment from the late 1970s or very early 1980s. Windows 10 users can expect to see these and other Sun Valley visual refreshes show up in Windows 10 ...

this time with a refresh of the Windows system icons. A Windows hacker has found a never-before-seen Easter egg in the Windows 95 Internet Mail application, twenty-five years after the software ...

It was 20 years ago Monday that Bill Gates stood in front of a crowd at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters and unveiled Windows 95. The iconic operating system introduced the world to ...

Twenty-two years ago, Microsoft Windows took a big leap forward with Windows 95. Most would say that Windows ... You're looking for a giant smiley face icon to take you to the next, more complex ...