OK, good points. I think my mental timeline for NeXT was a few years off. I was comparing the 1989 greyscale release with Windows 3.1, not Windows 2. I still th

OK, good points. I think my mental timeline for NeXT was a few years off. I was comparing the 1989 greyscale release with Windows 3.1, not Windows 2. I still think by 95 Microsoft and Apple had caught up and surpassed it though. NeXT had higher resolution icons but the rest of the look hadn't evolved at all. Maybe it's the shade of grey that does it, NeXT was a darker look than the others by the end.