Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)

Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. – Chenmunka May 26, 2020 at 16:59<p>chat.stackexchange.com&#x2F;rooms&#x2F;... : Page not found<p>This is really wrong. I wanted to read that discussion.

Windows XP installation process seemed something similar.<p>I remember I was blown away the first time I installed from an ubuntu live cd.

Interesting! Makes a lot of sense, too: if you’re offering the ability to upgrade from 3.1 you’re going to need to support it anyway, so why not use it as a setup bootstrap?

I was somehow able to change my mouse processing animation to red running horse.<p>That was the highlight of my year and I showed it to all my schoolmates.

What is the official name of this minimal Windows 3 system? I know it used to have a name. It was used for other purposes too, but I can&#x27;t for the life of me remember what.

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

Windows Millennium Edition was much flashier, although I particularly liked the blue background and white text.

I am so tired of clicking through cookie acknowledgements on every freakin StackExchange subdomain. Somebody please make it stop.

New Old Thing goes in-depth about the windows under windows.

SE&#x2F;SO has been a tire fire since 2014.

Why every file name is uppercase? Is there any reason for that convention, perhaps better readability on low res display?

The peak of mouse-driven GUI was Windows 98. The icon designs, the customization, and the animation is unmatched even today.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexmeub.com&#x2F;old-windows-icons&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexmeub.com&#x2F;old-windows-icons&#x2F;</a>

I used to only own &#x27;upgrade&#x27; versions of Windows (cheaper).<p>Whenever I had to reinstall Windows (which was frequent back in Win98 days), I had to first install DOS from floppy, then Win 3.11 from floppy, then a CD-ROM driver, then Win95 from CD until I could finally install Win98. (at one point I acquired a non-upgrade version of Win95 but it came on 20+ floppies, so the installation was not really much faster).<p>The end-result was a Win98 installation with a lot of old software lying around as the &#x27;upgrade&#x27; installers did not always remove all of the existing items.

There&#x27;s a whole list of weird Windows UI remnants from previous versions on github:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Lentern&#x2F;windows-11-inconsistencies">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Lentern&#x2F;windows-11-inconsistencies</a>

The Windows 11 installer is basically Windows 7 for the first part too, though this might be changing soon.