The Old New Thing

Did the Windows 95 interface have a code name?

July 29, 2014 Jul 29, 2014 07/29/14

Raymond Chen

Commenter kinokijuf wonders whether the Windows 95 interface had a code name. Nope. We called it "the new shell" while it was under preliminary development, and when it got enabled in the builds, we just called it "the shell." (Explorer originally was named Cabinet, unrelated to the container file format of the same name. This original ...