The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering (1996)
I still maintain that Windows 95 was the pinnacle of desktop UX. Nobody else, before, since, or at the same time, has released anything better.<p>Every Windows version since has been incrementally worse. Hell, Microsoft started ruining it with Windows 98, by merging Windows Explorer and IE into something really terrible. I still miss Windows 95 Explorer. And then there was Microsoft&#x27;s obsession with trying to turn the desktop into a web page... they ruined a lot of things, like the Find utility, and several Control Panel applets with that.