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Weak comparison...
BeOS/Haiku doesn't LOOK even remotely like win9x.
It looks a lot like win95. I don't think anything you brought up is relevant
It literally does not.
It has half yellow titlebars whereas win 95 has full titlebars with a solid blue colour (98+ had a gradient). The Tracker was in the top right corner and didn't extend it's height to the bottom. The Taskbar on the other hand was at the bottom corner and extended from left to right.
Those two differences are already enough to make BeOS NOT look anything alike windows 95.
https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/images/000/002/639/medium800/VirtualBox_BeOS_06_08_2019_13_06_26.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at_first_run.png
It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system!