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rbanffy • yesterday at 9:26 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Microsoft advanced the state of UI and UX more than anyone else in the '90s.

There is no universe where that is true.

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badsectoracula • yesterday at 9:53 PM

There is: this one.

Win95's UI was so incredibly influential that stuff introduced by it are still around to this day.

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ThrowawayB7 • today at 5:20 AM

And the contemporaneous counterexamples are what? The various UNIX windows managers and X11? System 6-8 on the '90s Macs? None of those were great UI/UX IMO.