Whether we want to or not, we have to face the Windows’s Desktop daily. The Start button, the applications’ buttons, the icons for the antivirus, network, video driver or Yahoo! Messenger, the icons dropped randomly on the screen, the Vista sidebar, and so on and so forth.
Obviously, this post is addressed to people that use Windows (I thought you understood that from the title … what are you doing here ? 
). On Linux or *BSD or Mac they have different desktops, but … quite alike. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to say that Microsoft invented the wheel, I’m just saying that, slowly, the looks start to be alike. Of course, each operating system comes with news and tries to look different or to be able to do new stuff … but, for the main parts, things are leveling.
Does anyone remember where Windows was in the beginning, as an operating system ? Do you remember if you have had Quick Launch on Windows 95 ? Do you know which Windows first featured the “Refresh” option in the desktop’s context-menu ?
Maybe there are people that couldn’t care less, but I always found amusing to notice the little details that concern the Windows’ look. For example, did you notice that many error messages in Windows 95 were displayed in the Windows 3.1 style ? Or that Windows Seven was the first Windows to change the Install New Font window … after it remained in it’s original Windows 95 design for about 13 years ? Do you remember that in Windows 98 there was not “Lock the Taskbar” option, this causing the Quick Launch to have different widths from one Windows restart to another ?
The next few images will remind you, roughly, how Windows and it’s desktop changed over the years.
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October 18th, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Mda…oricum vremurile alea erau taaaaare frumoase
cu rasnitze de calculatoare…te rugai de ele ore in sir…si windows pe masura…acum ne-am modernizat…vista…seven etc etc…cel mai bun a fost si va ramane dupa parerea mea XP professional(varianta clean fara updates)
imi place ce postezi 
Keep it up darky! Cum intru pe mess cum caut sa vad ce mai ai pe la status
January 8th, 2011 at 4:35 PM
Sal.Am si eu o intrebare.Un prieten are un PC mai…veki,numa cu floppy si fara usb si alte alea.Am fost intr-o zi la el si cand l-o pornit nu ma asteptam la asa ceva.Deci in loc sa apara desktopu apare,cred eu….DOS.Deci cand il porneste apare win 95,ca ala il are,dar intra direct in DOS,cred ca direct norton commander,banuiesc,asa ca vreau sa intreb daca nu se poate sa apara desktopu ala veki si uitat de lume.Si mi-o mai zis sa-i aduc si niste jocuri si nici nu cred ca stiu cum,sa le bag mai mult,ca asa stiu si eu ca o sa-i fac rost de niste joculete pt dos le pun pe diskete da nu stiu cum sa le bag.Asa ca rogu-va spuneti-mi cum tre sa fac sa dau de desktop,ca nu ma prea descurc cu dos-u.Danke