Comment by anthk

Ehhh... I disagree.

Java -> Bloated compared to Icon/TCL

VB -> OKish, but TCL/Tk and a bit of C did wonders under Unix.

NT -> Good, advanced

95 -> Mediocre against Amiga/Mac.

MSO -> Polished turd and uberused, giving disasters such as the renaming on Genomics and tons of papers now being void.

MPEG -> Good, bound to TV and multimedia standards.

QT -> Propietary crap, but QT3D was and it's still interesting. Lqtplay from libquicktime plays them well.

MP3 -> Opus and OGG preferred here

Acrobat/PDF -> PostScript and DJVU

Netscape/FrontPage -> Damn crazy bloat with opaque formats on tons of stuff not bound to proper terminology. Even using Emacs editing HTML pages seems easier. Composer looked easier than FP, for sure.

Videoconf -> Yes, h323 and friends.

IDE's -> A lot of them were better under DOS or very bloated under Windows, such as Eclipse, Netbeans...

PC/Console -> Yep, 3DFX/Glide and free Unixen, but consoles went downhill, the PC was set ahead since the Unreal engine.