In many ways NT was a new, ground up implementation of “VMS NT”.
It started elegant, but all the backwards compatibility, technical debt, bad ideas, and dozens of versions later, with an endless list of perpetual features driven by whoever had a bigger wand at Microsoft at the time of their inception, takes a toll. Windows now is much more complicated than it could be.
It shocks me some apps get Windows NT4 style buttons even on Windows 11.
It started elegant, but all the backwards compatibility, technical debt, bad ideas, and dozens of versions later, with an endless list of perpetual features driven by whoever had a bigger wand at Microsoft at the time of their inception, takes a toll. Windows now is much more complicated than it could be.
It shocks me some apps get Windows NT4 style buttons even on Windows 11.