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That’s not a typo. Windows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended.

I only learned about this a few months ago. To me, this was an incredibly fascinating discovery and wanted to write about & share it.

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[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 1 month ago

Windows Vista is Microsoft's greatest success, because it's main purpose was to make people forget the promises made for Longhorn.

[-] tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

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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