Microsoft veteran software engineer Raymond Chen has shared nostalgic stories about the Windows operating system over the past few years, generally focusing on Windows 95. From its testing phase being so intense that it crashed cash registers with over $10,000 worth of software, to why Microsoft settled on a largely text-based setup for the OS despite MS-DOS shipping with support for more graphics.
In his ongoing “Old New Thing” series, Chen recently discussed how Windows 95 had to deal with careless…

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