alt Hacker NewsIt's functional - yes, intuitive - maybe, but optimized is highly debatable.
The answer to maintaining a highly functional and stable OS is piles and piles of backwards compatibility misery on the devs.
You want Windows 9? Sorry, some code checks the string for Windows 9 to determine if the OS is Windows 95 or 98.
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PunchyHamster • yesterday at 3:11 PM
He was talking about user interface not app compatibility
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Millions of total computer noobs hit the ground running with Windows 95. It was a great achievement in software design.