Windows 95 Media Player could do more than play wav files, you could certainly watch videos.
Also there was a lot of evolution between Windows 95 and XP that gets glossed over, as the internet became more important. XP, with some minor tweaks, could behave like a stabler version of 95/98 (I must admit that I stripped much of the chrome away for a few months, till I got more comfortable with the slightly different look and feel of the menus and task bar).
The also ignore one significant trend-following dead-end from the 95/98 era: Active Desktop- Vista wasn't the first time they headed up a blind UX alley.
Even with Windows 7, I think they overstate the differences with its predecessors: the Start Menu remains as important as ever.
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Windows 95 Media Player could do more than play wav files, you could certainly watch videos.
Also there was a lot of evolution between Windows 95 and XP that gets glossed over, as the internet became more important. XP, with some minor tweaks, could behave like a stabler version of 95/98 (I must admit that I stripped much of the chrome away for a few months, till I got more comfortable with the slightly different look and feel of the menus and task bar).
The also ignore one significant trend-following dead-end from the 95/98 era: Active Desktop- Vista wasn't the first time they headed up a blind UX alley.
Even with Windows 7, I think they overstate the differences with its predecessors: the Start Menu remains as important as ever.