Re: Microsoft Windows 95 Turns 20
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 3:28 am
I'm sure most if not all Millenials and maybe some GenXers will have absolutely no appreciation for how the industry (life actually) once was. Not only the computer industry, but the idea of options in general, the ease of use (simplicity), functionality (features), et al, has become standardized, IMO in large part to the PC industry... communications, the web, entertainment, audio, video, local and streaming means of data (ours/theirs)... the PC market enhanced the desire for content, making it a mandate, with most industries, not just the computer market, responding, delivering it to our doorsteps - usually instantly, easily, and with options. It wasn't always like this. Did I mention the cell phone!.?
I single out Millenials mostly because they've had it all since birth, and in my experience have almost no appreciation for the roads crawled to get here. OTH, some of our parents and grand parents were without running water, electricity, a telephone, a refrigerator, and spent their lives appreciating even the little things. As we used to say -> conveniences | to the Millenial -> expectation. I'm not a fan of an expectation that lacks appreciation for the hard work invested - just my opinion from experience.
All wasn't rosy with Win95 though! Those of us who had to glob thru the plug-n-play myth remember how upgrades were hit-n-mis, frustration was abundant. This did bring about standards in the industry that has made things nearly a 100 percent proposition, if the device was manufactured to standards it will work as expected. This is one area that Linux has simply taken a back seat to Windows. Instead of developing 100,000 different flavors, instead focus more of your world-wide resources on better and greater device implementation so we can build exactly the computer we want, not one Linux must approve first.
So, yes, thanks to both Microsoft and Apple for the great improvements made to the modern GUI-driven OS, very awesome indeed.
I single out Millenials mostly because they've had it all since birth, and in my experience have almost no appreciation for the roads crawled to get here. OTH, some of our parents and grand parents were without running water, electricity, a telephone, a refrigerator, and spent their lives appreciating even the little things. As we used to say -> conveniences | to the Millenial -> expectation. I'm not a fan of an expectation that lacks appreciation for the hard work invested - just my opinion from experience.
All wasn't rosy with Win95 though! Those of us who had to glob thru the plug-n-play myth remember how upgrades were hit-n-mis, frustration was abundant. This did bring about standards in the industry that has made things nearly a 100 percent proposition, if the device was manufactured to standards it will work as expected. This is one area that Linux has simply taken a back seat to Windows. Instead of developing 100,000 different flavors, instead focus more of your world-wide resources on better and greater device implementation so we can build exactly the computer we want, not one Linux must approve first.
So, yes, thanks to both Microsoft and Apple for the great improvements made to the modern GUI-driven OS, very awesome indeed.