There was a silver lining in that the backlash from ME being as terrible as it was is what finally convinced them to put the consumer editions on the NT kernel.
I’m not sure that’s how that happened. If memory serves, they were already working on xp at the time, but that started to slip the year 2000 deadline. So, in order to keep the OS revenue gravy train rolling, they quickly threw ME together to have something to release in the interim.
Not gonna lie, 2026 is feeling more like Vista.
Hey now, Vista wasn’t 2026 levels of bad.
More like Windows Me
It’s funny how even Microsoft themselves seem to forget ME ever existed.
I think we’d all like to forget
There was a silver lining in that the backlash from ME being as terrible as it was is what finally convinced them to put the consumer editions on the NT kernel.
I’m not sure that’s how that happened. If memory serves, they were already working on xp at the time, but that started to slip the year 2000 deadline. So, in order to keep the OS revenue gravy train rolling, they quickly threw ME together to have something to release in the interim.
Hmm ok not what I remember but that was a long time ago and that does makes sense
In terms of Windows versions, yes, it was.
It was objectively worse than XP, and deservedly short-lived. Win7 was objectively much better than Vista.
People who survived from then to now, consciousness intact, even say that Win 98 was better than Vista.
Not that I am endorsing Windows in any way.
yep 98 was ok, Vista was shit
feeling like ≠ being run on
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