# Microsoft ships Windows 95 Date: 1995 ## The fact On 24 August 1995 Microsoft shipped Windows 95, a completed mass-market OS release under CEO Gates that bundled a GUI and, shortly, Internet Explorer. ## Context Neighbouring IPO is 1986. Neighbouring 1998 DOJ complaint is later tying. 1986 IPO is neighbouring capital. US v. Microsoft 1998 is later tying litigation. [Bill Gates](/people/bill-gates) was Microsoft CEO until January 2000, chairman until February 2014, then a technical adviser until 2020, and a Gates Foundation co-chair. That is not authorship of every Windows copy, every GAVI dose, or every IRS schedule. Melinda French Gates is a different person. Bill Clinton is PER-000772, a different person. A pledge is not a coverage rate. A docket is not a personality. ## Evidence and sources Microsoft carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance ## What is established and what is not Established: 24 August 1995 Windows 95 shipment, independently reported. Not established: that Netscape was thereby illegally killed that hour — that is the 1998 docket — or a unique later literacy coefficient. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Engineers shipped. OEMs preinstalled. Netscape competed. DOJ later sued.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Microsoft ships Windows 95, not a later speech about Microsoft ships Windows 95. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Microsoft ships Windows 95 on 1995-08-24 is not a licence to treat every later Microsoft communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Microsoft ships Windows 95 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was CEO. Engineers shipped. OEMs preinstalled. Netscape competed. DOJ later sued. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Bill Gates: https://factrail.ai/people/bill-gates ## Drivers - Digital-Platform Power Concentration: https://factrail.ai/drivers/digital-platform-power-concentration - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/technology/windows-95-launch-1995-08-24/ - https://www.microsoft.com/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ms-windows95-1995