Posted on 01/29/2013 1:49:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A lot has changed since 1995. Our best candidate for President was only the First Lady. O.J. Simpson was not in jail. No one was using DVDs. Saddam Hussein was in power. “Friends” and “ER” ruled the airwaves. Seinfeld was funny. The NHL was in the middle of a full season. Hootie and the Blowfish had the best-selling album. People were still buying albums.
And Windows 95 was released.
Back then Windows mattered, both to consumers and small business people. We relied on it heavily to run our computers. So each release of Windows was a big event. And the release of Windows 95 was the biggest of them all. The news received unprecedented media attention around the world, and this was at a time when the Internet was still finding its stride. The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” was licensed to highlight the operating system’s revolutionary new “start” button and the Stones themselves performed at a Microsoft event on the release date. It was the pinnacle of Microsoft’s dominance over the computer industry.
That was a time when people really cared about Windows. It was all we had.
And, for the most part, it sucked. Sure, it did a decent job of running our PCs.
But users suffered with bugs, blue screens of death and other anomalies that made their lives (and the lives of Microsoft’s support staff) difficult. And so, when a new release of Windows came on the market customers (and particularly business owners) were generally excited not just as much by the new features that would make their computing lives more fun, but more importantly with the fixes to the problems that plagued their daily lives too.
Fast forward 18 years. Windows 8 was released a few months ago and just last week reports are mixed.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
But then--I run Linux.
Here’s a little bit of trivia: Intel’s fabrication plants still use a number of stand-alone Windows 95 computers as station controllers in the production of modern, 64-bit processors.
Seems that Windows 95 runs just great unless you let people near it.
I care. Deeply. Really. I won’t buy it.
Nope, don’t care about Windows 8. None of my computers will run it, and besides, Windows XP serves my computing needs just fine.
When all my geriatric computers crap out (my laptop dates to 2006, and my oldest computer is a PIII), then I’ll think about a Win8 machine. But not until then.
It runs an old game that, for some reason, only worked if the DVD drive was mapped to D. Any other letter, and the game wouldn't see it.
-PJ
XP was fine.
7 is fine.
We don’t need an update for a few years.
Another MS bash article.
No, we should care. MS is dumb and whatever OS you use is cool.
Stop using Windows so civilization can proper and unicorns and rainbows can live in peace. If MS went bankrupt and disappeared it would be like so awesome and junk.
Is this about the sum total of what all the responses to this story are, or do I need to include some stuff about how much X MS products sucks, how someone’s grandma was confused or how their 3-year-old cried at using it or how no one really likes it because they are forced to use it or because they are dumb?
Care? About an operating system? They’re just tools, while I care FOR my tools to keep them operational I have never cared ABOUT my tools.
Cool! I got Windows 3.1 to run as a virtual machine on my Windows 7 computer. I play DooM on it once in a while! That was my very first video game. Played it when I was maybe five or six and it is still a fun game.
They finally got it right with Windows 2000, and that’s where I got off the upgrade train.
The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” was licensed to highlight the operating system’s revolutionary new “start” button and the Stones themselves performed at a Microsoft event on the release date. It was the pinnacle of Microsoft’s dominance over the computer industry.
That was a time when people really cared about Windows.
It was also a time when people cared about the Rolling Stones.
When a browser, that is a program running on top of the operating system, and NOT the operating system itself, for those outside the planet, connects to a website which is slow in responding, such as NPR a few minutes ago for me, when connecting to something called World Cafe, the whole computer freezes under Win 7, and earlier, until the website responds, Ctrl+Alt+Del has no effect. This is fugging unacceptable in 2013, problems of this type had been solved in computer operating systems 30 years ago if not earlier!
“Is this about the sum total of what all the responses to this story are, or do I need to include some stuff about how much X MS products sucks, how someone’s grandma was confused or how their 3-year-old cried at using it or how no one really likes it because they are forced to use it or because they are dumb?”
Dammit. Post of the day.
No need to change it. It does what I need it to do.
/johnny
I've started to run Task Manager in the background to allow me to shut down the programs, in XP.
Mine was compiled 6 days ago and it, too, does what I want :)
Uh Oh!
Gotcha beat ! My oldest running computer is a twin processor PII server, running Windows NT Server.
My oldest dead one is a PC XT clone - but I have a new motherboard. It has an 8087 math coprocessaor, a 4 MB EMS board, and a 1X CD drive !
It had the switchable 4.77 / 8 Mhz clock speed. Woo hoo !
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