Windows 95 was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft.Windows 95 was intended to integrate Microsoft’s formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products and includes an enhanced version of DOS, often referred to as MS-DOS 7.0. It features significant improvements over its predecessor, Windows 3.1, most visibly in the graphical user interface (GUI).The basic elements of the interface introduced in Windows 95 — including the taskbar, Start button and menu, and the Windows Explorer file manager. Windows 95 included support for 255-character mixed-case long filenames and preemptively multitasked pseudo-protected-mode 32-bit applications. Whereas earlier versions of Windows are optional “operating environments” requiring the MS-DOS operating system (usually available separately)