On 1/27/2015 12:44 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 01/26/2015 02:57 PM, wrote:

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Just my opinion, but it would seem that MS released both of them in
2000, just to make more sales, because WinME was a poor attempt at
upgrading Win98SE,

It was a poor attempt, IIRC the only improvement I remember is that is
included the USB storage driver. The help system was worse.

and Win2000 was based on NT and was their "new
direction".

IIRC, I changed to 2000 because it worked better on faster computers.

But WinME contained both the code from Win98se and some NT
as well. MS could (and should) have spent a little more time developing
their new OS and just released one STABLE version. Because WinME was
unstable, while Win2000 was fairly stable, but lacked the tie to Win98.

ME was unstable, like the previous versions. It required a lot of
rebooting. 2000 was better that way.

As it says in that webline (above), WinME was Microsofts biggest failure
(at that time), but later Vista was even worse.

I never used Vista much. I do remember it was more annoying when I tried.

It almost seems like
every other version of Windows has been dud ever since after Windows
98.....
I guess they're too fast on the trigger to make another release and thus
more sales....


I dislike the way that on 8 and later they try to make you use a
"Microsoft account", hiding the fact that you don't have to.


They are pests on Win 8.

You have to go back to their ap store to get back games like solitaire
and while free they have pop-ups and then send messages that for maybe
$1 you can rid yourself for them.

MS Office when you prepare a new doc and want to save it the first
option is their cloud where they try to hook you into paying.

Wish they would take note and not bring this crap into 10 but I bet they
will.