As someone born in the first half of the 1990s, I vaguely remember Windows 98 and vividly remember using Windows XP at school, Vista on my first laptop, and later Windows 7 which I reinstalled many times on another laptop which I used to experiment with Linux distributions on. Each version had been launched years apart with pretty big changes and it was a time before really good web apps so desktop apps were way more important than they are today. For me, each new release was hotly anticipated...
