>>117592
nah, you're wrong lol
7's UI sucks since that introduced all the ribbon shit, but Aero was mostly just the same as before but shiny. Mostly. 8's UI is abysmal, and we're still dealing with dumb shit from 8.

in terms of outright usability, MS got it nearly perfect with 95 apart from a handful of really rough spots (editing file associations in 95 is obscenely unfriendly -- 3.x just had you select a program and that was that, and 98 onwards let you configure things via the Open With menu -- or at least, I think that was 98, that could have been introduced in ME)
98 made some things better, a few things a bit worse, and each release was always less consistent, and that basically kept happening every Windows version since 95

which, to be fair, is because 95 pretty much just discarded most things from 3.x and copied Apple's System 7 lmao
95's UI was overall friendlier in terms of usability, even if a few aspects are less polished vs System 7, and all the really clunky bits are for things the Mac OS just doesn't have (like setting file associations lol)