{"id":13063,"date":"2010-08-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/08\/24\/windows-95-it-sucks-less\/"},"modified":"2021-01-02T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T19:01:58","slug":"20100824-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100824-00\/?p=13063","title":{"rendered":"Windows 95: It sucks less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 15th anniversary of the public release of Windows\u00a095.<\/p>\n<p>During the development of Windows\u00a095, one of the team members attended a Mac conference. And not as a secret agent, either. He proudly wore a Windows\u00a095 team <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/archive\/blogs\/larryosterman\/missed-metaphors\"> T-shirt<\/a> as he strolled among the booths.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us back at the mother ship wished him well and started discussing how we could get access to his dental records so we could identify his remains when they were sent back to us from the conference.<\/p>\n<p>When he returned, we didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/bib\/kjv\/luk015.htm#011\"> kill a calf in his honor<\/a>, but we did marvel at his survival skills and asked him how it went.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <i>I got a lot of funny looks. And one guy, upon confirming that I really did work on the Windows\u00a095 project, said to me, &#8220;I have to commend you guys on Windows\u00a095 so far. It sucks less.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That backwards compliment tickled the team&#8217;s funny bone, and it quickly became the unofficial team motto: <i>Windows\u00a095: It sucks less<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unofficial team motto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-13063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>An unofficial team motto.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}