The window system itself was better-thought-out and less-confusing than Windows's was. Extensions were an easy-to-understand way to extend one's system, and easy-to-disable too. The Macintosh system was very understandable, very clean. It might still be, but they're both so painful to use now that it's very difficult to pick a winner. I think that the Mac back then was head-and-shoulders a better system than Windows. Well, I agree that there was no comparison with System 8, but not in the sense you mean.
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> Compare it to other GUIs at the time, like CDE, IBM's Presentation Manager, or even Mac OS 8 and there's no comparison. Basically everything that makes Windows what it is today. So much stuff I had forgotten - TrueType fonts, Plug and Play, registry settings, right-click properties, long file names. I wouldn't switch back because of the underlying crap that is the Windows OS and file system, but I still miss the interface.Įdit: Found this fantastic PDF "Chicago Reviewers Guide" which goes over all the new stuff in Win95. I still get frustrated on OSX when I minimize a window and have to hunt around for it. Windows 95 solidified Microsoft's dominance, but could just as easily eroded it had they dropped the ball.Įven though I've used a Mac daily for the past decade or so, I still miss the task bar, and window-oriented GUI of Windows.
Compare it to other GUIs at the time, like CDE, IBM's Presentation Manager, or even Mac OS 8 and there's no comparison. The very first version missed wildly in some big ways (MSN was a folder integrated into the desktop, for example, and no TCP/IP support ), but the core, underlying redesign of the GUI was so profoundly good it propelled Microsoft into a new level of ubiquity. It's hard to remember, but even though Windows 3.11 was extremely dominant at the time, it was by no means assured that Windows 95 would be the success that it was.
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