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Why Windows ME deserves more respect | |
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| Time: 01:07 EST/06:07 GMT | News Source: istartedsomething | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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I have a confession to make, I used Windows Millennium Edition and I liked it. That doesn’t stop me making fun of it however. | ||
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| #1 By 25406 (124.169.203.152) at 3/18/2008 1:35:25 AM |
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I tend to agree.
I've compared Windows ME to the Leaning Tower of Pizza. Both are remembered for being built on poor foundations rather than any other interesting or innovative features. This post was edited by marbleless on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 01:36. |
| #2 By 7760 (98.173.218.183) at 3/18/2008 3:43:44 AM |
| I've always felt the same way. I used it and thought that it was a positive step forward. I've never quite understood the flak that it got. Maybe it's because many people had problems that I never had with it or, because Windows 2000 was so solid, Me was judged relative to it, rather than relative to 98. Whatever the reason, it served me well enough for a year or so before I got my hands on an XP beta. |
| #3 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 3/18/2008 6:52:27 AM |
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I got an upgrade version for $49 and the 2 months that I used it were issue free.
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| #4 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 3/18/2008 7:29:34 AM |
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ME has always been a puzzle: I personally knew a lot of people who could not use the OS for an entire day without at least oneBSOD.
I used it since Alpha builds and never experienced many problems; sure during the Alpha/Beta period I had issues but not something that made the OS unusable. After ME RTMed I kept using it without issues. Well I am one of the few, very few, that thought "Bob" was not such a disaster. Sure it was very expensive, almost $100, I did not like at all the cartoonish UI and WIn95 came out soon after but in many aspects it was way ahead of its time: the screen was drawn using vector graphics as it was supposed to be Longhorn (:-, it came with several apps like checkbook manager and other financial tools, calendar, a basic word processor, address book and if I remember correctly some kind of games. Again besides the child oriented UI it was an interesting alternative to Win3xx interface and better than other apps like the Packard Bell Navigator and many others very popular at the time. This post was edited by Fritzly on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 08:49. |
| #5 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 3/18/2008 7:32:15 AM |
| Packard Bell! I'm gonna have nightmares tonight. |
| #6 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at 3/18/2008 8:43:51 AM |
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Windows ME was a horrific POS. Thank goodness it never made it to the enterprise.
TL |
| #7 By 52115 (66.181.69.210) at 3/18/2008 10:22:02 AM |
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With my W-ME experience, it was an oddity..
For one install and it ran like a champ, no issues at all.. Then install it on another computer, same hardware, vendors, etc and you couldn't get it run even in safe mode.. It would bluescreen at startup.. Then you wipe it and reinstall and it would work until you got to installing updates.. Rewipe and it would run without any issues at all.. Just weird, weird things over and over.. |
| #8 By 2231 (72.5.151.4) at 3/18/2008 10:55:23 AM |
| It never seemed to be as reliable as Win98SE. |
| #9 By 143 (74.129.194.180) at 3/18/2008 11:58:06 AM |
| Wow. Vista SP1 final is out and it's not posted here? |
| #10 By 21912 (24.182.56.225) at 3/18/2008 2:37:50 PM |
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I wasn't crazy about WinME, but in my experience it was certainly a step forward from Win98 in terms of features, so I made good use of it. My biggest initial complaint was the inability to load real-mode device drivers from config.sys at boot time, but after I wrote a program to accomplish that feat, I had a couple more years before I had to wean myself away from those drivers. Although the frequent complaint about WinME is instability, it seemed more stable than Win98 in my experience.
I even still have WinME in a virtual machine, though I rarely need to run it anymore. At this point, it's sort of a museum piece. |
| #11 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at 3/18/2008 2:59:20 PM |
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WinME was 'ok' on OEM machines that were designed and matched to it, and shipped as a pair.
Where WinME was a real pain in the ass was as an upgrade for even slightly older machines where the hardware and drivers were not carefully crafted and matched to the OS. |
| #12 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at 3/18/2008 3:02:36 PM |
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WinME was 'ok' on OEM machines that were designed and matched to it, and shipped as a pair.
Where WinME was a real pain in the ass was as an upgrade for even slightly older machines where the hardware and drivers were not carefully crafted and matched to the OS. |
| #13 By 9589 (75.183.116.248) at 3/18/2008 10:23:38 PM |
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OK, Ok, I'll bite - is it April Fool's Day?
Yeah, ME was fabulous@$#!&)??? What are you all on crack? |
| #14 By 12071 (203.158.56.88) at 3/19/2008 7:40:29 AM |
| Nope.. these are all the same people that don't have any issues with Vista either. |
| #15 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 3/19/2008 8:49:37 AM |
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#13 & 14: Nobody here said that ME was without problems! For me, I only used it for a couple of months and didn't see any of the issues others complained about. That doesn't mean that problems didn't exist! Once I went to win2k there was never a reason to go back. If you had bothered to read a little more carefully, most posters here said that they had good and bad experiences.
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| #16 By 8556 (12.208.163.138) at 3/19/2008 4:18:32 PM |
| #14: Vista SP1 good. ME and DOS 4 bad. I take that back. DOS 4 sucked donkey b@!!$. |
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