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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by chungy on Friday October 13, 2023 @06:44AM (#37869086)
That wiki is wrong. (First off, NT 3.51 came out four months before 95, it'd make no sense as an argument that the CD player was too new for 95, yet included in NT 3.51)

The Windows 95 release-to-manufacture disc, files dated 1995-07-11, the /WIN95/WIN95_14.CAB file:

    $ cabextract -s -l -F cdp\* win95_14.cab
    Viewing cabinet: win95_14.cab
     File size | Date       Time     | Name
    -----------+---------------------+-------------
           643 | 11.07.1995 09:50:00 | cdplayer.cnt
         88064 | 11.07.1995 09:50:00 | cdplayer.exe
         20579 | 11.07.1995 09:50:00 | cdplayer.hlp
    
    All done, no errors.
Windows 95 shipped with the CD Player from its very first release. It wasn't added in as an update. Day 1.
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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by AshamedCaptain on Friday October 13, 2023 @02:32PM (#37873894)
https://web.archive.org/web/20051214182952/http://support.mi...

Please also note that I _never_ saw 95 as a CD in retail. I actually took a trip to the US when it was released to search for it, since I got confirmation from my local MS that it was not in EU. Several people do ensure me that there was a retail CD version, but I have never seen it in person myself. I have seen plenty of OEM discs, though.

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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by chungy on Friday October 13, 2023 @03:34PM (#37874601)
In the US, the floppy version was very uncommon. I didn't even know it existed for a few years, until I encountered someone that had it.
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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by crazygringo on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:18AM (#37929061)
Ah ha. Mystery solved, thank you!

Turns out everybody's half-right. :)

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