The changes that MS makes now seem to be just for selling new versions. I use Windows 2000, it is handy, no Internet registration scheme where they track your usage, and so on. When I was younger I wanted to run the newst thing out there and would change often. Now I stick with whatever works best until it breaks.
Great points, actually. I was running it in Virtual PC recently and marveled at how incredibly few resources it used. I was surprised by how much software I could get to run on it as well.
windows 95 has many good things that the modern version of windows have lost or never had:
- lightweight (Doesnt even use memory <128 MB)
- very fast
- total cost of ownership = 0
- functional (office, opera, etc: everything works somehow)
- easily replaceable (ebay)
- robust (works even with damaged hardware - somehow)
- security (through obscurity)
- i have an idea how it works (in modern version of windows i have somehow lost the overview)
- no need to update (just accept how the system is)
- free of distractions (no widgets, sidebars, audoupdates)
:)