I actually remember when I was telling my friends about Windows 95 when it first came out, and what it has to offer over Win 3.11. It sounded like "well, it has a button in the lower-left corner with a menu, and all the programs are started from that menu". My firends were quite unimpressed, untill they got to try it later themselves.

The moral of the story is that even if people can not explain why, new windows can be a serious improvement over the previous version, and quite more popular, too. Give it a try.