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This was a huge deal back in the day. There was actually a decent amount of OS competition and Microsoft's release of Win95 (plus all the exclusivity deals they made with hardware vendors...) propelled them to a whole new level of success. Of course this market stagnation eventually lead to Vista and Microsoft has been going downhill ever since...
Oh well, installing Linux as my main driver this year lol, I'm not going to Win11
i remember some stores were open at midnight, and people waiting in line, even camping overnight, to buy it.
win7 had a similar launch hysteria, but no windows since can even come close to matching either of these.
Oh yeah the win95 excitement got a little out of hand lol. I kind of miss getting that excited about stupid new gadgets and stuff. These days we're just left wondering how the new stuff will steal our information, ruin social interaction even further, or otherwise be enshittified or participate in the enshittification of some other service or function of life.
Tech bros being a bunch of psychotic Network State anarcho-capitalists really has ruined my excitement for new tech.
They had the commercials with the Rolling Stones too, Start Me Up, great move to introduce the new start menu.
Man, I think I saw a laptop with this on it the other day at work.
