i don’t recall those- but i remember being excited when windows XP came along- We went from windows ME (Yuck) to XP and thought it was just the bees knees- We resisted making the switch to 7 later on, but then got to like it quite a bit when we did-
My neighbour got into windows 2000- then eventually got XP- He liked 2000 quite a bit- We never got that version-
Windows certainly has gone through a lot of growing pains- Wish they had stuck with 7 personally- or at least gave folks option of continuing with it and developing it alongside 10- I still use 7 as my gaming computer and photography/photoshop- but now use linux- as my daily online os- i dual boot now- best of both worlds-
Do have laptop with windows 10- meh- it’s ok i guess- but only because i make it look like 7
Lot of games are starting to use win10 only software, I’m debating whether I want to play those games enough to go away from 7 which I’ve used for at least 10 years