Not a counter-point at all, just an aside: consumer windows and NT were fundamentally different software. The "Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows

Not a counter-point at all, just an aside: consumer windows and NT were fundamentally different software. The "Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" book is a packed guide of what happened at Microsoft at the time and covers the differences. Very interesting read.