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dalauder Fun article. It helps me understand why so many installations required a system restart. Through about 1997, I still was installing and launching plenty of games from MS-DOS mode. Now I know that a lot of Windows programs did that kind of under-the-hood on the restarts. Reply
ezst036 Interesting. I still miss Windows 95. Back when Microsoft was for its users and not for Microsoft. Reply
usertests ezst036 said: Interesting. I still miss Windows 95. Back when Microsoft was for its users and not for Microsoft. Lol Reply
vinay2070 Toms now posting all good articles behind the paywall and useless dramas here. Reply
adamboy64 ezst036 said: Interesting. I still miss Windows 95. Back when Microsoft was for its users and not for Microsoft. Totally. It's a relic from the time where computers were more like our friends – working with us, and software devs were trying to improve functionality & user experience. These days tech feels like the opposite. Reply
recycledelectrons This should not be a surprise. If you tried to name your installer anything other than "setup" Microsoft threw a fit. Reply
ezst036 adamboy64 said: Totally. It's a relic from the time where computers were more like our friends – working with us, and software devs were trying to improve functionality & user experience. These days tech feels like the opposite. You can still have that experience but its only now available in the open source world. That is in fact a part of why the Linux numbers slowly keep growing. People slowly discover. It is not lost after all. Reply
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