"The window managers on Windows NT and Windows 95 both had ancestry in the Windows 3.1 window manager, so a lot of the designs were the same, but the code had long since diverged significantly, so it wasn't so much merging the code as it was using the Windows 95 code as a reference implementation when reimplementing the features on Windows NT."
"they appreciated being kept in the loop."
Early Windows NT releases retained the Windows 3.1-era Program Manager while Windows 95 development introduced a new user interface built on a different architecture. The NT team focused on shipping NT while planning to incorporate Windows 95 shell elements for NT 4.0. Window management features required reimplementation on NT because designs shared ancestry but the codebases had diverged significantly. Explorer was brought into the NT codebase largely intact and adapted to NT conventions. Bidirectional synchronization between the Windows 95 and NT codebases reduced duplicate effort and eased ongoing updates.
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