[lotharbot]

My 90s desktop experience included Windows, one of the pre-nix Mac OS's, and Red Hat. They were all terrible. Windows' propensity to crash was particularly bad, though.

I also used web browsers from Mosaic through the Netscape line, Opera, and IE. As late as 2001, IE was doing its own thing with regards to certain standards, and Frontpage was putting out broken HTML that only IE would render (leaving off /table tags, for example.)

There was plenty to criticize Microsoft for in that era. Seeing as the discussion is "why don't people give Bill Gates his due", I think it's perfectly valid to point out that some people still harbor some resentment from that era.