Every once in a while Microsoft still does something exactly right. And it makes me wistfully sad for all of the missed opportunities.
Yes, I was one of those who did an all-nighter outside a store waiting for win95.
Yes, I was one of those who did an all-nighter outside a store waiting for win95.
Summer of '95, I was sitting at the weekly roundtable meeting of our IT department (at an R&D lab I used to work), and explaining to the boss that I could get my hands on a new beta of it from a friend so we could kick the tires. The whole team seemed interested and leaned in. "So," the boss says, "Who is your friend... he must be some VIP at a big operation, eh?"
"Nope," shaking my head.
"Well, who?" asks the boss.
"He's a high-school student."
"BWAH-HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAahahah...."
I wonder now if i was the only one to crash our entire novell network by trying to use Microsoft's version of the novell client.
I remember coming across a picture from that day [1] and thinking to myself how similar the excitement is to the modern day product release from Apple. Yes Microsoft has become the company everyone loves to hate but I think they were considered cool or hip back then.