Sure, but that wasn't an OS. NT was an OS and was perfectly end-user ready. I deployed in production. If we were talking about games and compatibility with ex

Sure, but that wasn't an OS. NT was an OS and was perfectly end-user ready. I deployed in production. If we were talking about games and compatibility with existing hardware and software, then fine, yes, Win95 was the first consumer 32-bit MS OS. But we are not. The blog post is talking about writing C++ code, which is not, I submit, a "consumer" sort of activity.