Microsoft's work on Windows is of exceptional quality (certainly nobody elseĭid any better) except for the things that simply couldn't have been known With clever multisyllabic insults to get a laugh. Tearing down Microsoft - this is not a comedy bit where I try to come up I should note that this is meant to be an analysis, not me Notice any significant difference in Explorer itself. However, I did not strain toĭocument each service pack or OSR, so for instance my copy of 95
No betas, and I think I skipped aĬouple versions that had very little public impact. So all of these should be equivalent to "I installed, booted, and opened My With some of them I had moved things around or done other tasks with the machineīut to the best of my knowledge I had no reason to change any display settings, Windows, as close as practical to "immediately after install." Operating System is to manage files on disk, right) and click a coupleĪll of these screenshots are taken from VirtualBox with fresh installs of You open whatever file browser it has (because the purpose of a Disk What I'm focusing on here is the question " what was the out-of-boxĮxplorer like?" That is to say, you've just installed Windows, With 95, and documenting every part of it would be very Anyway, IĬhecked every major release and compiled screenshots of each, so you can checkĮxplorer is the entire shell of Windows beginning Manager, for instance, is a completely different beast than 3.1's. The entire shell) that I had never realized were there - Windows 3.0's File Recently I discovered there are subtle (but occasionally quite significant)ĭifferences between revisions of Windows Explorer (the actual file browser, not As an example, Notepad prior to - I think - WindowsĢ000 will not save if you press Ctrl+S. Versions of Windows and finding out that minor elements of the interface areĭifferent than I remember. Pointless exercise, it's still been on my mind because I keep running old Windows GUI, and while that makes sense, since it's a deeply tedious and largely What I haven't seen is side-by-side comparisons of specific pieces of the Major, beta or released, simply abound online. There are obviously several very solid sources of pictures of Windows andĬomparisons between versions online, and screenshots of every version, minor or
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