19 Nov
2025
19 Nov
'25
11:44 a.m.
> NO discussion of alternatives could be complete
without
> remembering "BOB"!
> Microsoft released it as a "more user friendly" interface, optionally
> supplanting program manager on win 3.1, Win95, and even WinNT. They
> releasede it on March 10 1995.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2025, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
I think it was Spencer Katt who wrote "Using
Windows NT is like having
a child help you."
The normal user interface of NT was OK; did somebody deliberately launch
BOB on his machine?