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Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96?
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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I was actually part of the beta test group for Windows Nashville. It was an improvement over Windows 95, but Windows 98 really brought home a lot of good UI design improvements that began in Windows Nashville. Sadly, it was so buggy that they delayed for several years and, instead, just released Windows 98 when it was finally ready.
Windows Longhorn was a similar failure a few years later
Oh, the name Longhorn unlocked some memories just now...
Windows Vista is Microsoft's greatest success, because it's main purpose was to make people forget the promises made for Longhorn.
I do kinda wish we had gotten WinFS. All the "ideas" of it seemed cool, just impossible to implement without breaking every existing application.
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