Q 01/05

Which Friends actor joined Jennifer Aniston in the "cyber sitcom" video guide Microsoft released for Windows 95?

A) David Schwimmer

B) Matthew Perry

C) Matt LeBlanc

D) Lisa Kudrow

Answer · why

B) Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry's sitcom tour was one piece of a launch blitz for which Microsoft also paid millions to use the Rolling Stones' 'Start Me Up' as its the...

Q 02/05

What is the name of Windows XP's default wallpaper, a photo of green hills under a blue sky in California?

A) Serenity

B) Meadow

C) Bliss

D) Horizon

Answer · why

C) Bliss

Bliss was shot on film one January, after winter rain had turned an unplanted hillside green; the slope has since been covered in vines, and the view ...

Q 03/05

Which ambient musician composed "The Microsoft Sound", the six-second start-up chime of Windows 95?

A) Jean-Michel Jarre

B) Mike Oldfield

C) Harold Budd

D) Brian Eno

Answer · why

D) Brian Eno

Brian Eno later admitted on BBC Radio 4 that he composed the Windows chime on a rival machine: "I wrote it on a Mac."

Q 04/05

Which New York landmark was lit up in the colours of the Windows logo to celebrate the Windows 95 launch?

A) Grand Central Terminal

B) Empire State Building

C) Chrysler Building

D) Brooklyn Bridge

Answer · why

B) Empire State Building

The Empire State Building was one stunt among many: in London, Microsoft paid for the entire 1.5 million print run of The Times and gave the paper awa...

Q 05/05

Which Microsoft operating system of October 2012 was the first public release since 1995 to ship without a Start button?

A) Windows Vista

B) Windows 8

C) Windows 7

D) Windows 8.1

Answer · why

B) Windows 8

Windows 8 treated the desktop as just another app, and the complaints were loud enough that Windows 8.1 put the Start button back a year later.