they weren't promoting an OS, they were promoting a user experience - A GUI that competed with the Mac.
replyThere were OS improvements too, but I have forgot what. The real improvements came with Win2K - one of the best versions of Windows ever.
I don't remember if Plug-n-Play shipped with the original Windows 95 (it's certainly there in the final OSR), but that was a pretty big shift from the manual IRQ and port mapping days of DOS/Windows 3.1.
replyback then, it was still plug-n-pray. it didn't work as well as it was intended when it was first available
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