Windows 95 had a better UI. Windows 98 was the beginning of Microsoft trying to Webify everything to cram Internet Explorer down everyone's throats. It had non-

Windows 95 had a better UI. Windows 98 was the beginning of Microsoft trying to Webify everything to cram Internet Explorer down everyone's throats. It had non-monopoly-related dangers; by making the difference between the desktop and web more ambiguous, it erased the "local things=relatively safe, network things=relatively risky" heuristic we internalized at the time. Not exactly 100% true in an era of Word macro viruses, but it was useful. I would nominate late AmigaOS or BeOS as having a better WIMP UI than any Windows.