I know. This was the first of the 3 times I ever felt good and even eager about a new feature [promised to be] introduced in a new version of Windows. I felt a huge pity it was cancelled. It could have been picked up by other systems (like Linux and Mac) already if it was actually released that time (provided it was engineered well enough to be usable).
The second nice thing was the new taskbar (with pinnable app buttons and without text) in Windows 7-10. I've even configured the taskbar in KDE (which I use at home) to the same mode.
The third cool thing is cross-app text input autocompletion and correction made available with physical keyboards in Windows 10. Sadly I don't know how to accept a completion suggestion without using mouse, yet the feature already helps me a huge lot (as I write a language I'm not very good at).
If not these 3 things I'd be glad to keep using Windows 95, if only there were security&stability updates and current software and hardware support - newer versions of Windows didn't add any other features I would find useful. Everything else (besides internals which have obviously improved a lot) is either bloat or a minor goody.
Windows 10 has seemingly added universal file tagging support (previous versions could only add tags to files of some formats which allow injecting them in file body) but as long as Windows, KDE and MacOS don't store the tags the same way (so I could tag files on an external drive using Windows and keep using the tags when I attach the drive to a Mac or a Linux machine) this is of little use for me.
The second nice thing was the new taskbar (with pinnable app buttons and without text) in Windows 7-10. I've even configured the taskbar in KDE (which I use at home) to the same mode.
The third cool thing is cross-app text input autocompletion and correction made available with physical keyboards in Windows 10. Sadly I don't know how to accept a completion suggestion without using mouse, yet the feature already helps me a huge lot (as I write a language I'm not very good at).
If not these 3 things I'd be glad to keep using Windows 95, if only there were security&stability updates and current software and hardware support - newer versions of Windows didn't add any other features I would find useful. Everything else (besides internals which have obviously improved a lot) is either bloat or a minor goody.
Windows 10 has seemingly added universal file tagging support (previous versions could only add tags to files of some formats which allow injecting them in file body) but as long as Windows, KDE and MacOS don't store the tags the same way (so I could tag files on an external drive using Windows and keep using the tags when I attach the drive to a Mac or a Linux machine) this is of little use for me.