1995: WINDOWS 95 launch - is Microsoft too big? | Newsnight | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

Windows 95 has been launched, to the strains of Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones. The operating system is Microsoft’s most important software product to date, and is expected to find its way onto as much as 80% of all personal computers. Much has been made of the Microsoft Network, which sees Microsoft aggressively position Windows as an online service. BBC Newsnight’s Graham Ingham visits Seattle, the home of the computer giant, to ask industry insiders whether Bill Gates’ ambitions to be dominant in every sphere of PC software is good for the industry. Clip taken from Newsnight, originally broadcast 24 August, 1995 You have now entered the BBC Archive, an audiovisual time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of tv. Let us educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic tv clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive -