Microsoft Interactive CD Sampler (Windows 98 Second Edition - 1999 - SampleTopia)

Happy Windows 11 Day! (or it would've been if I remembered to publish this before midnight). While Windows 11 is IMO pretty damn cool (although the new system requirements are pretty weird), for #SampleTopia, let's head back to the CD Sampler that I'm personally the most familiar with: Windows 98 Second Edition (the first PC I've remembered using has 98 SE).
My Personal Tutor? Prepare to learn, presto! Logos for various Microsoft products that already used the Windows XP-esque style back in 1999? I'm not kidding, the font is basically the same. An ad showcasing Microsoft's failed attempt at making a "smart phone" (by that I mean a landline phone that connects to your PC via serial)? Dial me up! An ad for mice that's weirdly nostalgic to me? Roll me like a trackball. Or how about ads for the SideWinder series of game controllers? Control me up!
From the Windows 98 Second Edition CD-ROM.
fair use ill make you eat the mice if you take this down.

[@Heather-Br]

I wish Microsoft still created these samplers, even if they came preinstalled on the hard drive rather than on cd. This thing is neat to watch. Thanks for uploading.

[@kurosenpai]

ty for uploading. I have a very font memory of this time. It was 2000 when i got my first computer and i was 12 years old. I remember all the demo games in this interactive cd sampler.

[@zolujf]

I remember, I had a Pentium II 366 MHZ PC with 32 mb ram, 4 gb HDD, and an old videocard. And i used windows 98 few years.

[@R___________________]

My first 'good' computer came with this I think. I must have played the aoe rise of rome trial a thousand times until the old man finally relented and bought me aoe + ror. I would hate to see the pie graph of my childhood hours spent on aoe/expansion and its demo lol...

[@qwasd0r]

That startup sound is magnificent.

[@1992eylul]

I used to play Monster Truck Madness 2 and CART Precision Racing with my Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel steering wheel on my Windows 98 computer. those were the days

[@awsomedude9111]

Computers are fundamentally the same no matter how you look at it. The core has never changed, it’s never better.

[@MichaelSouhoka]

Newer Windows OSes has no more Interactive CD Sampler, since Windows XP.