Windows 95 (and patronage) had become a shitshow. It’s easy to forget how much time us tech types were spending “fixing” uncle’s PC that somehow got malware on it. How we touted Linux as an escape from the hellscape of crapware.

It was into this void that the “everything seems new” iPhone stepped and ventured out in a different course. I’m neither speaking for or against apples normalization of an App Store as a primary source of updates, just recalling the way things were, and positing that Apple was trying a different approach that initially offered a computing platform that wasn’t the hellscape that MS platform was quickly becoming.

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vladms 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

Windows 95 was fundamentally broken as if I recall correctly there was much less security features (accounts, file permissions, etc.). Nowadays there are less problems with it.

	▲	calgoo 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Its not that it was broken, its that security was not really a thing. You had your antivirus to protect you from people adding stuff to discs, but thats it. Windows 95 was just an exe file in the windows folder that you could run from DOS. Windows NT / OS2 did have more security as it was meant for shared environments, but even there, corporations ended up using stuff like Novell NetWare to get the actual networking services. Windows 2000 was the first version of consumer windows based on the NT kernel instead of the DOS / Windows 95/98/ME based systems. I still remember running around the office updating windows 2000 machines to service pack 4 to protect us against the first real massive virus "ILOVEYOU". Edit: Still on first coffee, sorry about the ramblings