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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
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Yes... and no.
Microsoft's operating systems have been very hit or miss - certainly their consumer operating systems - with the classic rule being "every other one is decent":
The more business focussed OS's like Windows for Workgroups, NT4, and 2000 were rock solid in fairness.
Their business practices have always been shady as fuck too. Embrace, extend, extinguish is firmly burned into computer hobbyists minds.
95 was great. 98 was shite. 98SE was fine.
95 wasn't good. That's when the "just format C: and reinstall windows" tradition started. I had to do that to my computer at least yearly until 2000 came along.
I never had to do it once. And compared to Win3.11, it was revolutionary. Though Oregon Trail stopped working on it, which was a bummer.
This is the correct comment.
95 didn’t even ship with FAT32 support originally. I agree with the original comment that it wasn’t until the OSR versions that it got good. But they never sold those in the box, you could only get an OSR version from a prebuilt computer. So a lot of people never experienced them or didn’t experience the original 1995 version of 95 that still required 8 character filenames.