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> Also 95/98/Me were woefully insecure. To be (somewhat) fair, those Operating Systems were intended to run on standalone consumer machines that weren't perman
by jcadam 6y ago
> Also 95/98/Me were woefully insecure.
To be (somewhat) fair, those Operating Systems were intended to run on standalone consumer machines that weren't permanently attached to a network. The most likely means of getting infected with a virus/malware back in the Win95 days was via the floppy drive.
Though always-on internet connections was clearly the direction things were moving toward the end of the 90s - there was no excuse for going back to the trough with WinME rather than pushing everyone to NT.
- yardie 6y agoWinsock was included with 95 so they had networking available by default. And network has been in Windows since 3.1 so I wouldn't say it was a lack of forethought. They just did not practice basic security and left it to the rest of the world to protect themselves.