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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
Who exactly was complaining about the 'clearly inferior' Windows 95 GUI compared to Windows 3.1?
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Heh! All the IT folks. "All the retraining! No Compact Program Manager front-and-center! And that crappy Start Menu! Cascading and spreading all over the screen!"
http://toastytech.com/guis/win95.html
And before that there were Command Line fans who complained of the mouse-driven interface instead of the short, clean command line interface where you could touch-type your way all over instead of having to reach for the mouse and chase a cursor all over.
The issue is never whether there is a valid rationale behind the changes but rather that there *are* changes.