ahh, that takes me back…

>using 95 at work until a few

well the main thing is – if you don’t connect it to a newtork and (more particularly) if you’re not the person expected to get it to *work* while connected to a network you’ll probably just about get by. It does suck compared to 98 though (and in fact compared to 3.11 with a decent IP stack on it, but who remembers that? ;-)).

You’re right though – I always approach software with low expectations – that way I’m so much less disappointed. ;-)

I was using 95 at work until a few weeks ago. I was very pleasantly surprised by how bad it wasn’t. That’s probably mainly due to very low expectations, mind. It was insanely slow.

At my last job we had a business critical system running on little windows 98 network and it was a nightmare. To get backups even close to working I had to hook up a 2K machine as I couldn’t get the software or drivers working on 98. And the whole thing fell over on a daily basis.

Prior to that I went to a client site in Ayr that was running Windows NT 3.5.1. That took a bit of remembering!

Does this mean that all the folk that only ever tested their sites in IE are gonna have to learn to be standards compliant? Let’s hope so. Also, that all them crap ‘fixes’ for ie can get tae fuck.

I’m sure you must mean ME wasn’t as good as 98? 2000 rocked. Many people still use it because XP is only a slight improvement on 2k (faster boots, uglier Luna theme, Roll back).

But give it it’s due – 98 SE is easily the best of the 9X family. ME surely must be MS’s worst operating system ever? I’d rather re-install Windows 95 over the top of my XP box than use it for five minutes.

Perception changes with time though – I actually had to go back to supporting W98 for a customer last year and OMG! you don’t realise how much things have moved on. It was *so* much worse than I remembered (and i didn’t like it that much first time around).

Oh, absolutely. The problem with public betas IMO, though, is that people tend to ignore the “beta” bit :)

Well, it is a beta, so I’d imagine finding bugs is a good thing.

According to (I think) The Reg, they’ve found a security vulnerability already.