I just read the first of what will undoubtably be a long string of articles looking at the 20 year history of Windows. You can read it for yourself here. It brought back some fond and not so fond memories of my computing experience. I didn't use Windows until 3.0 but when they talk about it being slow and buggy I can remember thinking the same thing. I kept reading on with the next link until I had finished reading the interview with Bill Gates.