Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by watersb on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:44AM (#16331160)

Windows Explorer can be extended; the example I remember is browsing a folder of email message files, both the metadata attributes displayed in list view, and a functional content pane for viewing the message itself.

Be OS did this, too; I got the impression that Windows was inspired by that, both for BeFS (NTFS) and the desktop filesystem UX.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by digi_owl on Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:41PM (#16334446)

NTFS was introduced a few years before BEOS.

More likely that they were both inspired by a common source.

Never mind that MS have been working on a fully database driven FS (WinFS?) for ages.

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