RE: Desktop Metaphor

[Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk]

I’ll throw in my two cents to say that I’ve used a fair number of GUIs over the 
years both commercially available and FOSS, and I’d say that Windows 95’s UI 
blew the doors off of anything I’d used up that point in terms of usability. 
Nobody IMO can fairly compare it with the previously available X based 
desktops. The Mac was good, the Amiga was good, but there was a lot more 
flexibility in how Win95 operated, and that’s probably why  (along with 
familiarity) that it has been so oft copied up to this point (Mac OS X’s UI 
notwithstanding, which is also quite good).