Yet despite all these shortcomings it, and its descendants, were, and continue to be, wildly commercially successful. I genuinely don’t understand all this loo

Yet despite all these shortcomings it, and its descendants, were, and continue to be, wildly commercially successful. I genuinely don’t understand all this looking down on what, in hindsight, clearly worked. NT was always marketed and priced for the professional & enterprise markets, so the whole “but what about home computers at the time” rings hollow. NT ushered in a new era of business computing and networking, and more importantly a new era of thinking about and working with technology in the workplace, something its competitors at the time couldn’t manage. Even Novell netware, dearly missed, got steamrolled by NT. You can pooh-pooh NT all you like, and talk about what a shitty clone it was, and how poor the technology was. NT clearly won, at the time.