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?
