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		RyanMcGreal on March 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the deskto... Windows 95 wasn't hugely different than 3.1. The jump to Windows from DOS was much bigger. In both cases, the newer OS could seamlessly run applications written for the older one.

dpark on March 12, 2012 [–]

95 introduced the start menu, desktop, and taskbar, and nearly did away with DOS. It was a pretty huge change.

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