Under-explored in this article is the degree to which pre-NT/95 Microsoft (particularly BillG) was obsessed with NeXT, at least if you believe Steven Sinofsky:
> we were sat in a room thinking 'How do we design this to be different, so we don't get sued by Apple?' The Mac had a menu bar of text across the top, so we thought 'we can't go across the top, we'll have to go across the bottom
If you're on some X11 (Xorg or whatever else if there's still something else than Xorg) windowing system (say non-Wayland Linux or a BSD), you can definitely get some window manager with themes very close to that.
Under-explored in this article is the degree to which pre-NT/95 Microsoft (particularly BillG) was obsessed with NeXT, at least if you believe Steven Sinofsky:
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/009-passwo...
> we were sat in a room thinking 'How do we design this to be different, so we don't get sued by Apple?' The Mac had a menu bar of text across the top, so we thought 'we can't go across the top, we'll have to go across the bottom
Funnily enough, a few of the Windows Chicago/94/95 builds do come with the taskbar set to top of screen by default: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_95_build_90c
I want this taskbar: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/qnx621/
So retro, so cool.
If you're on some X11 (Xorg or whatever else if there's still something else than Xorg) windowing system (say non-Wayland Linux or a BSD), you can definitely get some window manager with themes very close to that.
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