I was already running linux then, but I booted windows to run games and got to experience its laughable “multitasking” and poor networking stack. It really wasn’t great, but it worked, I suppose.
What surely is interesting is that Microsoft was somehow somewhat visionary with their usage of browser technology for the desktop. We see Windows Update running in the browser, there was Active Platform which included Active Desktop (very prone to crashes), they had ActiveX (shudder). In a way all ideas they abandoned but that were implemented somewhere else later and better. Not saying these ideas were good.
I was already running linux then, but I booted windows to run games and got to experience its laughable “multitasking” and poor networking stack. It really wasn’t great, but it worked, I suppose.
What surely is interesting is that Microsoft was somehow somewhat visionary with their usage of browser technology for the desktop. We see Windows Update running in the browser, there was Active Platform which included Active Desktop (very prone to crashes), they had ActiveX (shudder). In a way all ideas they abandoned but that were implemented somewhere else later and better. Not saying these ideas were good.
From ~windows 2000 to windows arguably either 7 or 8, kinda, for some things.