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Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government
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Whatever happened to windows having nice boot up sounds? Win 11 is dull and generic.
It was competing on a market, despite already owning most of it.
People could use something like GEM instead of Windows 3.11 and the likes, and a lot of people still did. There were other alternative application shells on top of DOS.
I think it was a nice ecosystem, actually. Having the most simple and basic and clearly understood base, like DOS, and plenty of addons above it. Probably some multiuser and virtual memory features would still be good, but.
It's not about systems, it's about usage. Say, if we had NT with a text shell like such a "DOS", and above it plenty of different competing subsystems, not just Windows, with the interface clearly standardized, maybe Windows world wouldn't be such shit.
And I think many people even working in Microsoft saw its future like that or better than what we have.
So the moment MS kinda won, they started openly rotting.