There is also an elephant in the room with all these questions about the messy interactions between Windows 9x and DOS - Windows NT. By 1995 Microsoft’s long vi

There is also an elephant in the room with all these questions about the messy interactions between Windows 9x and DOS - Windows NT. By 1995 Microsoft’s long view of the future of the PC OS did not involve DOS. Even before NT we had OS/2 as well. If Microsoft had been “nicer” they could have made it easier for DR to use their DOS to load a GUI that mostly acted as its own OS and bypassed DOS once loaded, but what happens once they get to XP? (Of course DR / Novell kinda knew this hence stuff like Star Trek, but whatever DR’s vision of the future was never came).