[MichaelGG]

And going a bit further back, this is probably one more reason Windows was successful. Networking "just worked". It was pretty neat (in the 90s) to just plug stuff in, turn it on, and hey, there's the other computers, and printers and so on.

[NickHaflinger]

If you mean Windows 3.1 running over Novell Netware and Trumpet Winsock then it did indeed bring networked ease of use computing to the masses :)