Windows 95 Is Now Available on Linux, Mac, and Windows as an Electron App

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Marius Nestor
Aug 25, 2018

If you want to have some fun this coming weekend pranking your colleagues or friends, there’s now an Electron app with Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system that you can run on Linux, Mac, or even Windows computers. Yes, you’re reading it right, someone just packed the very old Windows 95 operating system in an Electron app, which can be installed on any platform thanks to GitHub’s open-source framework for building and distributing universal binaries on Windows, Linux, and Mac systems.

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Marius Nestor

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