But when Windows 10 came out in the summer of 2015, it injected some sanity into the equation. Then we witnessed that whole imbroglio with Windows Vista, then the migration to Windows 7, and the UX disaster that was Windows 8. For example, in the consumer space, Windows 95/98/ME went to Windows XP, which used the NT kernel and systems architecture we are still using now, and that was a huge deal for consumers.īefore that, while some verticals migrated to Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0, most enterprise businesses went from Windows 95/98 to Windows 2000, implementing Active Directory (and moving from LAN Manager and Novell NetWare to NT in the datacenter) and then XP, so that migration was painful and disruptive to them for many different reasons. They were colossal pain points for consumers and organizations who were upgrading. Let's refresh our memory: Before Windows 10 came out, we had large milestone releases that introduced significant changes to the OS.
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