Everything old is new again: Windows 98 install screens

Aug 13, 2010

Everything old is new again: Windows 98 install screens

During an installation of Windows 98, I captured its golly-what's-new screens. Here's some of them:

Today with Windows 7, old people are just as frustrated in using a computer.

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One of the primary promises for Windows 7: getting it to start faster. One of the promises for Windows 8: getting it to start faster.

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The registry: the one-stop location for most of your software problems.

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I think this is the one screen that gets reused for every release of Windows. As well as the one that says something about being faster and easier.

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The goal that keeps eluding Microsoft: not needing to restart the computer for changes to the operating system. Linus figured it out; Gates never did.

Posted at 07:05 AM in The Microsoft Chronicles | Permalink

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Aug 13, 2010