> At this point of desktop OSes, I see little need to migrate to the new OS [...] Going from text to rich UI, then PnP, security, multi-user, management, etc. were necessary evolutions, but now what, [...]
People who weren't using computers of the "IBM PC" lineage back then might underestimate how big the jump from MS-DOS and Windows 3.x to Windows 9x was. The jump to the NT kernel (Windows 9x or ME to Windows XP), while smaller, also brought many benefits to normal users. Windows Vista (and Windows XP SP2 before it) tightened the platform security. Every Windows release after that feels like incremental improvements at most.
People who weren't using computers of the "IBM PC" lineage back then might underestimate how big the jump from MS-DOS and Windows 3.x to Windows 9x was. The jump to the NT kernel (Windows 9x or ME to Windows XP), while smaller, also brought many benefits to normal users. Windows Vista (and Windows XP SP2 before it) tightened the platform security. Every Windows release after that feels like incremental improvements at most.