Windows XP installation process seemed something similar.
I remember I was blown away the first time I installed from an ubuntu live cd.
Interesting! Makes a lot of sense, too: if you’re offering the ability to upgrade from 3.1 you’re going to need to support it anyway, so why not use it as a setup bootstrap?
I was somehow able to change my mouse processing animation to red running horse.
That was the highlight of my year and I showed it to all my schoolmates.
What is the official name of this minimal Windows 3 system? I know it used to have a name. It was used for other purposes too, but I can't for the life of me remember what.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
Windows Millennium Edition was much flashier, although I particularly liked the blue background and white text.
I am so tired of clicking through cookie acknowledgements on every freakin StackExchange subdomain. Somebody please make it stop.
New Old Thing goes in-depth about the windows under windows.
SE/SO has been a tire fire since 2014.
Why every file name is uppercase? Is there any reason for that convention, perhaps better readability on low res display?
The peak of mouse-driven GUI was Windows 98. The icon designs, the customization, and the animation is unmatched even today.
I used to only own 'upgrade' versions of Windows (cheaper).
Whenever I had to reinstall Windows (which was frequent back in Win98 days), I had to first install DOS from floppy, then Win 3.11 from floppy, then a CD-ROM driver, then Win95 from CD until I could finally install Win98. (at one point I acquired a non-upgrade version of Win95 but it came on 20+ floppies, so the installation was not really much faster).
The end-result was a Win98 installation with a lot of old software lying around as the 'upgrade' installers did not always remove all of the existing items.
There's a whole list of weird Windows UI remnants from previous versions on github:
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The Windows 11 installer is basically Windows 7 for the first part too, though this might be changing soon.
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