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[Neon]

Which BETA OS/OS was the turning point for MS?

Chicago, neptune, Longhorn....which really is the start OR was the start of something?

I think Chicago cos the startmenu was first tried, Chicago is the windows 95 beta.

Feel free to mention one i missed if it really for you, was a critical part of Windows development and made it was it is, love it or hate it!!

[tnctx02]

I liked Neptune because it was was going to bridge the gap between the home fat32 file system and professional versions with NTFS.
This was a really nice operating system too, still got me a copy here somewhere.

[ShadowFox]

I'm sorry but Whistler took it away... after many years of the same look, they changed it up... advanced it a little and made an, at the time, awesome OS. Longhorn started a whole new saga in it's self, bringing a side bar and now in Vista we have they DWM engine that makes the windows transparent. I think Whistler (XP) starte dthe whole new revolution.

[patman174]

I have to agree with karl on this one, even though im not a fan of windows 95, the beta was the turning point for it. This changed windows from having to be on top of dos, to a stable os running on its own. The GUI was much better, and yes the start menu was born.

[Visentinel]

Windows 95 still ran on dos just like windows 3.1
As did windows 98 and Windows ME

The only os back then that truly ran on its own framework was windows NT

[Neon]

Patrick meant it was usable and bootable without this...

MS DOS...

A:\ 'C:\'
C:\ 'cd windows'
C:\windows> windows

just to get in 3.1/3.11

it was a more independent OS

BUT V' (if i may call you that) your correct about NT, but boy did it take ages for our operating systems to get it on a non pro level.

I still have NT server and some software to secure 98 so you can have roaming profiles, because 98 wasn't meant for it a user could click cancel and bypass login.

My softwares called 'winsuite 2000' and you can restrict 95/98/ME very easily with it on a network basis...

[Visentinel]

Windows 3.11 could be independent aswell, all you had to do was edit the autoexec.bat file if you hadn't already chosen to during windows 3.1 setup

you added

path=c:\;c:\dos;c:\windows
smartdrv
win

smart drive disk cache and then win runs windows automatically at boot.
and guess what windows 95 and 98 also rely on autoexec.bat running the " win " command to launch windows hehe

[RedInferno]

Visentinel, on Oct 26 2005, 06:08 AM, said:

Windows 95 still ran on dos just like windows 3.1
As did windows 98 and Windows ME

The only os back then that truly ran on its own framework was windows NT

I believe NT was a pioneer as far as networking and so...WIndows 2000 professional is stil widely used today....they made HUGE advances with these 2.