Why Are There No Services Under Win95/98?

Marketing decisions
- Microsoft did not want Win95 to be useable as a server OS, otherwise folks wouldn't buy NT (this is also why 95 can't be a named-pipe server).
- Microsoft wanted Win95 to run on a very minimal hardware platform, and adding these capabilities would increase load too much.
Technical considerations
- No security credentials
- Not really multiuser
- No infrastructure for logging and administration

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