Microsoft Windows first thoughts.

Coming from DOS 6.20 to Windows 3.11:

This is much worse than DOS! Microsoft is dumbing down computers so just anyone will be able to use them! I will lose my status as an Übergeek! Why would anyone do such a thing? Why is the mouse suddenly so important? Well forget this, I'm still going to focus on keyboard input.

Ahh, there's an "Exit Windows" feature. whew!

It was the only thing I knew, so it was exciting for me. We did have Macs at school, but they seemed so bland that Windows 95 seemed stellar.

Oh how times have changed.

"Where's the HDD? what's this My Computer thing?"

Seriously, coming from the Mac OS, I was so loss trying to iuse Windows the first time.

Nothing was my problem until I owned one. I spent 75% of my time doing repairs, research of Windows fixes & maintenance on my copy of Win 98SE for the first couple of years. I had to reboot a dozen times a day because it consistently ran out of HEAP memory & couldn't show pictures of any kind anymore. Rebooting took a good 5-10 minutes. If I valued my time like everybody else, I wouldn't have had time for it & wouldn't have had ANY patience for it & probably would have thrown my computer away out of sheer frustration.

Win ME was horrible because there wasn't enough system resources to run much of anything, like a printer.

Win XP has a problem with Critical Updates taking out the computer or some aspect of the computer that used to function. People are scared to get their Windows Updates and are adamant about avoiding them out of sheer panic. Then there's things like: where's the Recovery Console & why wasn't it installed?; why do .avi files lock up Windows Explorer?; why the Reinstallation disk, where's the real Windows disk?;

I've found XP to be a much smoother ride than 98 or ME, but I've just spent 6 weeks trying to chase down answers since that McAfee bug even though I had Norton instead. I've had 2 computers on life support for this past little while, so I'm still trying to decompress & finish a 35 hour backup job.

Win 95 was put on a hard drive too small to really use. I've got 1 gizmo that needs a COM port and my old Win 95 machine is the only machine that supports this gizmo. Gizmo never got used & batteries in it are still holding the memory on it since 1996.

Well I was very young when I first used Windows 95 but I must have felt it was the best thing ever from switching over from the BBC Micro Computer, but I remembered the games weren't as good on Windows.

The first version I used was Windows 95. When I figured out how to navigate I was hooked. I thought it was lightning fast and beautiful; that boxy grey interface. Guess it was better than the monochrome I was used to.

I went from Webtv to Windows 95 which was fine, then jumped to Windows ME which was not so fine, then Windows Xp and so forth. Once I hit XP all was well for years, 95 worked well and bypassed 98.

At first I was a Windows fan! I loved everything about it and was lucky enough to have my first PC aged 3! I had Windows 95, then 98, then XP. I tried Vista and it was awful so I returned to XP. Since then I have made the move to Mac and will not be going back to Windows. I still use Windows 7 on a partition but only for the occasional game. It's such a shame where Microsoft is taking Windows. Windows 8 is no doubt an awful OS with the industry and MS's users turning their back on Microsoft.

Windows 95 in 1996 was the first Windows OS I used and I liked it. Mainly as a six year-old I just found more over whelming and detailed to the OS I had previously.

I did use another computer in school before that, which was neither Windows or Mac. It was a working OS with a slightly cheaper look to Windows 95.... And it definitely wasn't Windows 3.11.

I passed Word Perfect5.1, then I took a Win95 class and I knew I had to stay on top of it. I passed and moved up. I bought my first laptop in 2000 while taking a college computer class in .net 2000, and first desktop in 2002. I've been online learning stuff ever since.