oh man. as the author of BOOTSTRA.386 you're giving me ideas ...<p>I'd be going for 1997 windows 95 style... make it truly tasteless like their advertising at the time (<a href="http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/docs/ms/vbsdoc/tagline.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/docs/ms/vbsdoc/tagline.gif</a>) might be fun
A bit OOT: During my early days of programming back in high school, I found Visual Basic 5 CCE (<a href="http://www.thevbzone.com/vbcce.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.thevbzone.com/vbcce.htm</a>). Having previously used Turbo Pascal, I was quite mesmerized by the UI designer/drag-n-drop. I spent countless of hours making pretty UIs, and I just <i>love</i> clicking buttons (esp. watching the "sunken" effect).<p>Of course, since I was an idiot, I didn't know that I can't produce .EXE using VB5 CCE.
I know this is probably mostly meant as a joke, but it could be rather useful in business applications. You're able to give the users an interface they recognise and feel safe in.
Oh, I was working on something like this, but for Windows 95. I didn't finish it, unfortunately.<p>On a related note: <a href="http://win95.ajf.me/" rel="nofollow">http://win95.ajf.me/</a><p>(And <a href="http://cloudnt4.ajf.me/" rel="nofollow">http://cloudnt4.ajf.me/</a>, but the VM isn't running for now)
A fun project. Here's another, a lost version of Windows from a parallel universe: <a href="http://www.windows93.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.windows93.net/</a>
The use of page-wide nearest-neighbour scaling makes this look horrid on mobile browsers. I'm not sure it's even necessary anyway, treating 9x-style Windows UI as vector looks great.