>Good question, Mike.
>We're so busy bashing MS (they can use it) that we forget what a big step forward Win NT was
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>1. Basically, Win NT rendered DOS obsolete and introduced the graphics world as we now see it. Previous version of Windows weren't reliable enough for serious business applications and Win NT was - blue screen of death notwithstanding.
>2. We take Plug and Play for granted now, but it was a huge step forward in the promoting the development of new and better peripherals.
>3. It made managing LAN based apps simpler and less expensive than Novell had been (remember Novell?) and therefore more accessible to smaller firms. That single fact was responsible for a huge amount of business for our company. The client could now run more applications and asked us to develop them.
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>>For sure.
>>Windows NT happened around that time also and that was a real game changer.
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>>>How so? Not disputing it, just uncertain what you mean.

I remember going from 95 to NT 4.0 workstation and thinking "WOW! this is a stable OS". The only problem at the time was there was hardly no drivers for NT 4.0 and Plug-n-play didn't work a lot of time on NT 4.0. I was on NT 4.0 until I went to XP, which I'm still on now but now plan to go to Windows 7.