Windows 95 released 17 years ago

[Nothinman]

Better start menu than we have now (and I'm not even talking Windows 8). The Win 95 Start Menu had a cascading list of program folders which means you didn't have to scroll down to see all your installed programs. And I don't remember the Win 95 Start Menu sometimes taking 5 seconds when hovering over a program folder to see its icons.

The Win7 menu is lightyears ahead of Win95 simply because navigating a menu like that is terrible, you should use the search instead. I've had the Win95 start menu expand to 3+ levels covering the whole screen making it virtually impossible to find what you need. I can type WinKey then 'exc' a lot faster than I can click Start, programs, Microsoft Office, Excel.

 

[hhhd1]

The Win7 menu is lightyears ahead of Win95 simply because navigating a menu like that is terrible, you should use the search instead. I've had the Win95 start menu expand to 3+ levels covering the whole screen making it virtually impossible to find what you need. I can type WinKey then 'exc' a lot faster than I can click Start, programs, Microsoft Office, Excel.

It should have been possible to do both at the same time, be able to search, while replacing scrolling with cascading, to have the best of both worlds.

 

[Rio Rebel]

Win95 may have been the interface that sparked the boom, but it was Windows 3.11 that made networking a part of mainstream. Before that, it was all Novell.

I still remember when Wordperfect 6.0 came out (before MS Word took the market, it was all Wordperfect) and you could get it for DOS or for Windows. I got the one for DOS, and have been dragged kicking and screaming along with Windows ever since.

 

[Nothinman]

It should have been possible to do both at the same time, be able to search, while replacing scrolling with cascading, to have the best of both worlds.

Of course it's possible and I agree the scrolling sucks, but I use it so rarely that I don't care. I would be fine if they removed the All Programs menu completely and left you with the search/run bar, pinned apps and special entries like Computer, Network, etc.

 

[Ben90]

Windows 8 (in some cases) is providing usability equivalent to windows 3.11 or Dos applications that had mouse support.

I feel a lot of users that hate on Windows 8 aren't exactly power users. I haven't seen the metro interface since the first day I installed 8. The honest fact is if you have been using the start menu to access your programs, you have been doing it wrong the whole time.

 

[Tom]

I feel a lot of users that hate on Windows 8 aren't exactly power users. I haven't seen the metro interface since the first day I installed 8. The honest fact is if you have been using the start menu to access your programs, you have been doing it wrong the whole time.

lol, glad you've memorized the name of every program and accessory installed on your pc.

I have had better things to do for the past 20 years.

 

[slayernine]

In 1996 I bought my first computer for $50 at a garage sale, it was some old dos machine that I played around with for about 5 minutes.

Then my grandma told me to some upstairs and there was a black acer tower with Windows 95 and it had a CD rom which was pretty bad ass for 1996.


I then proceeded to log a few thousand hours playing civilization 1. Them were the dayz.

 

[Nothinman]

I feel a lot of users that hate on Windows 8 aren't exactly power users. I haven't seen the metro interface since the first day I installed 8. The honest fact is if you have been using the start menu to access your programs, you have been doing it wrong the whole time.

I have my most used apps pinned to the task bar, but there's no way I can pin them all so I still need to use the start menu regularly. That doesn't mean I'm doing it wrong, it just means my workflow isn't the same as yours.

 

[jhansman]

Ha! I still remember all the whining from the 3.1 users about how they hated 95 and how MS screwed up their lovey OS. Lessee, why does that sound familiar?