Windows 95 on iPad completes the Bill Gates vision (video)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted April 12th 2010 7:28AM
posted April 12th 2010 7:28AM
Ok, ok, it's just Windows 95 running in an x86 emulator according to its creator. But even with such clumsy performance you know you love seeing it. Party like its 1995 without the Aqua Net after the break.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
@mrqs
hahah classic
Ha!o!
iPad was put 95 under ruled!
I've had Win 7 running on my iPad...Well I remoted in to my Win 7 box using WinAdmin. Actually looks very nice, though not very usable without a stylus...but that would be WRONG.
I wonder how hard it would be to throw XP (or 7) on there.
wat about win98se we demand win98se Now!,but seriously,,,,,,,,we want winxp at least Then we can see if it can run crysis! :)!!!! or something else it insane ,that it was never ment to run ,But we love to see it anyways :)!
Minesweeper failure
Hard to watch...
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@JusSumguy
Your avatar definitely is
I wonder if this is win95 rev a, b or c, if it is rev a I'd rather have my armpits infested with the fleas of 1000 camels.
Windows 9x = BURN IT! BURN IT WITH PLASMA!! I still get the shakes thinking about having to reboot if you even look at the Network Neighborhood icon incorrectly, let alone actually configuring it. It got so bad at one point at work with Windows 95 that I dreampt that I flew to Redmond and started going on a killing spree with a broken Windows 95 CD; one half in each hand going around the campus slashing people to death. What a wonderful night sleep I had that evening. I think God every day for the Windows NT kernel. Windows NT 3.1 Workstation and its successors. There may be many who call Steve Jobs god.
But Dave Cutler is my personal geek god for his work on NT.
As a Linux/Windows 7 user, Why?
@TechBlogger Because they can? The iFad may be nothing more then a touch, but when geeks get their hands on it they are going to want to play.
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Windows 9x = BURN IT! BURN IT WITH PLASMA!! I still get the shakes thinking about having to reboot if you even look at the Network Neighborhood icon incorrectly, let alone actually configuring it. It got so bad at one point at work with Windows 95 that I dreampt that I flew to Redmond and started going on a killing spree with a broken Windows 95 CD; one half in each hand going around the campus slashing people to death. What a wonderful night sleep I had that evening. I think God every day for the Windows NT kernel. Windows NT 3.1 Workstation and its successors. There may be many who call Steve Jobs god.
But Dave Cutler is my personal geek god for his work on NT.
@John Doe Fail. :(
Strange...I am viewing this from my iPad and when I played the video in full screen my whole device froze / crashed....lol
Yay!! Windows 95...Reminds me why I switched to a Mac!
Aqua net? not in the 90s, unless it was used to help burn effigies
I was hoping to hear the familiar Windows 95 start-up sound, but that music killed it.
It's just me or typing on a tablet is insane, Ipad should have writting recognition.
@Billy Gun
with the finger on a capacitive one ?
I doubt it'll be fun or any better.
And Steve has blown the stylus anyway.
@Billy Gun The trick is to use texting thumbs. with a little practice you can definitely do it in portrait and if your fingers are long enough in landscape.
have to give credit to a guy at my local Apple for that one. I went in for the keyboard dock cause like you I wasn't doing so great with the typing. but the dock wasn't out yet. they had guys carrying ipads around to show folks stuff and he gave me a spin on thumb typing. mind you he had insanely long fingers but after a few minutes I was getting the hang of it and for quick things it works well. for serious typing I still got the dock when it arrived
the screen protector on that iPad is gross
@fixxxer it's not a screen protector. it's the plastic it comes in.
Inside your heaaaddd
that was about 7 years ago, when i was using my first operating system..
Yah pretty much. A 15 year old OS probably could run on a pocket calculator at this point. Assuming you had the right drivers. :P
Seems he mailed SJobs with it as well:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/steve-jobs-apparently-says-original-iphone-wont-be-upgraded-in/
ha ha, that guy sucks at minesweeper. you don't go blindly clicking in another section when you've got a 1 right there with the best odds of not hitting a bomb. What a dufus.
More like "party like its 1996". The screen has the "Microsoft Internet Explorer" text that indicates OSR2 or later.
YES! WE DID IT!
This is what I've been waiting for!
LOL thats a genius bar where this is happening. look at the furniture and the other imacs next to it
@boboco
Not an Apple Store.
The iMacs are old school, non-widescreen versions.. no way they'd still have those hanging around at an Apple Store!
@fry3k
i meant like the back room of a store or some apple office but you are right those are old imacs. Its just the surrounding, it looks all apple like
@boboco i have to go with no.
1. the genius bars don't have computers set up
2. the training bars all seem to be using laptops
3. the display imacs have the wireless keyboard and mouse on all of them as I can tell
4. it's not like that shade of wood is anything special to Apple
5. it's a game company if you take the wallpaper as a sign so several computers set up together isn't a shock
Wow! An iPad reached Vladivostok already?! Took a train to Japan? Hey, but this thing hasn't released even in Japan yet. (I know an Apple shop in Suwon, South Korea already using a not-for-sale iPad to lure in customers. iPads won't be available here until June.)
nah. ill stick with windows XP
Dude, we can like totally get Office 95 on our iPads now!
Who said the iPad was a toy?
@nightalon it runs minesweeper, that is classic corporate gamer action.
Not that hard, if you have a dev certificate, anyway. Just build bochs:
http://github.com/dbrashear/bochs
with the iPad toolchain, provision it for yourself and put it on your iPad. Ta-da. And to the person who asked about W98SE? Yeah, it'll do that too.
How are you using the right mouse click?