That gets me thinking. The touch screen launcher system is a throwback to even before Windows 95, and to Windows 3.x or even earlier, never mind the likes of Ma

That gets me thinking. The touch screen launcher system is a throwback to even before Windows 95, and to Windows 3.x or even earlier, never mind the likes of Mac or Amiga. Back then you didn't have menus, you had nested folders (kinda made more sense on the Mac and Amiga where you were browsing actual floppy content rather than a HDD). The Windows 95 menu was basically a translation of that folder tree into a menu (you could even right click the start button and have explorer open the root folder of that tree). Never mind that back in Win95 the root menu would cascade in columns rightwards based on screen height (and resolution). I think it was either the IE addon pack or Windows 98 that gave us the scrollable single column pr depth menu.