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Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems


by Nina Kalinina, December 31st, 2024 (rev. 1.01) It is common knowledge that Final Fantasy could have been the last game in the series.

a CAD Engineering Capture, a GIF viewer Easel, an AI graphical expert Nexpert, e-mail clients The Network Courier and Windows mail, multiple office applications, including Samna/Lotus Ami, NBI Legend and Palantir WinText. This went by several names, notably MUSH (Microsoft User SHell) and Interface Manager, and is an entirely text-mode UI framework signified by the "session control" strip with context-specific commands at the bottom of the screen. "Well, at a late-June Friday-night party celebrating the opening of Microsoft's big new Canyon-Park manufacturing facility, Murray spied his good friend David Weise, a Windows developer, fellow physicist, and all-round computer whiz.

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