The History of Windows 98 Development

Today we have a look back at the development of Windows 98. I take you through 6 builds and discuss the major changes that occurred during development! Thanks for watching!

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[NJRoadfan]

I was on the beta team, I'll have to look over what "official" builds were given out during the beta phase. There was also a lengthy release candidate phase that you skipped. My vague recollection is that Microsoft would seed different builds among testers. I don't recall getting a RC3 CD for example.


Regarding Web TV For Windows. I owned the lone capture card that was supported during beta, the original ATI All-in-Wonder. It never worked right, and other testers had the same results. MS put a TON of resources behind developing and having it beta tested. It was a bloated buggy mess that Microsoft eventually shelved as it was clearly not going to work. I remember rosy predictions from people backing the likes of WaveTop about a market for selling VBI space for datacasting use. Yeah, that didn't work out.

[ricigri]

I will never forget this OS and that BSOD during Bill Gates presentation... 👌😎

[OrangeShellGaming]

The single-click mode shown in 5:31 is actually available in Windows 98 and above, but it needs to be enabled from the Explorer settings (in Win98 at least it can be changed from Folder Options > General > Web style, or General > Custom > Settings... > Click items as follows).

[bailsafe]

10:42 "Created: Monday, January 01, 1601"
And people say the Dark Ages were good for nothing

[AndroidSunner]

There's this dry cleaning place out by me which has computers that still run to this Day Windows 98, it was an amazing sight.

[peytonlutz]

I could imagine they got rid of the scrolling text during setup because of improper scaling between resolutions or something small like that

[addiesworld]

This one has to be the most confusing Windows development history yet.

[msthalamus]

Something many people don't know is that Windows 98's UI changes were actually developed by the Internet Explorer team as part of IE 4 and then ported over. This was referred to as Shell UI and Active Desktop, and was my first product in the 20 years I spent working at Microsoft. I also got such a kick out of seeing the comma splice I filed a bug on at 12:04 (in the lower left corner). Believe it or not, correcting their grammar ruffled some feathers, but at least they fixed it. If only they had fixed the Earth turning backward in IE 5.0 Setup when I filed that bug, we could have saved some public embarrassment. All they had to do was reverse the order of the frames in the animated GIF, but the PM felt it was too late to take on a potentially "destabilizing" fix, and that no one would notice anyway. smh

[WindowsOnWindows]

Another Windows development video! Love it!

[lordsmokio]

Your videos are always so interesting. Thank you for the effort you put in those. It's really cool to see the development history of Windows OSes!

[computerkid]

Glad to see you return to Windows Betas. These are my favorite videos of yours.

[TimmyHD]

Holy cow, the production quality of these history videos just keeps going up and up!! 😁 Keep up the good work MJD!

[noahbeaudin]

Realy enjoy the Windows development history videos. Keep up the great work.

[intelDX]

4:44 Go to View to bring up tool bar and "address bar" and folder options to set all folders to be opened in single windows! Windows 95 have those features and I do not know why they are not enabled by default !

[CastawayRJ]

I love the music that Michael uses for his history & retrospective videos.

[CaveyMoth]

Thank you for walking us through Memphis.

[FrancescoRosi]

12:38 "Register your copy of Memphis now, and enjoy the benefits of being a registered Window user."
Ah yes, it's very good to be a Window user

[gilly]

You're on a roll with these awesome videos. Keep it up ♥

[animationszentrale]

I recently discovered your channel and enjoy it, and now even a new video! Great job, keep up the good work. Excited to see more:)

[supremepupilgovernmenthero]

Mr. MJD, The next is Development of Windows 2000.