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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by petercooper on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:47AM (#16324315)
it was by no means assured that Windows 95 would be the success that it was

I remember these times well. It was considered a huge break. People were whining about how stupid the Start menu was compared to just seeing your apps in front of you all the time :-D I love that we eventually came full circle to a Windows 3.1 Program Manager-esque approach with iOS nowadays!

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by Momquist on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @01:08PM (#16326598)
Note that progman.exe was still shipped with the OS (it disappeared for good with Vista), and you could even set it as the default shell at boot.

I don't remember anyone using this setup ever though. Maybe this was too obscure and technical for the users complaining.

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