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From what I remember it went like this: Microsoft: we're giving everyone the NT Kernel Geeks: No, we want 9x Kernel Microsoft: Fine, here's Windows ME
by hateful 6y ago
From what I remember it went like this:
Microsoft: we're giving everyone the NT Kernel
Geeks: No, we want 9x Kernel
Microsoft: Fine, here's Windows ME
Geeks: Noooooo!
Microsoft: Releases Windows 2000
Geeks: We want Windows 2000
It was so much more solid than Windows ME and they had 99% of the NT compatibility layer figured out by SP1 (if that's what it was called). But the best thing for me was that I had 2 processor motherboard with 2x 1Ghz P3s and the 9x Kernel couldn't handle that.
- rbranson 6y agoWindows 2000 came out before Windows ME.
- torgoguys 6y agoWho was clamoring for the 9x kernel? No me nor any geeks I knew... And as sibling mentioned, ME was before 2000. I remember this because at one point the actively marketed versions were Windows ME, NT and of course CE for those ARM devices. Some people, complaining Windows was slow, pointed out that if you rearrange those version identifiers you get Windows CE-ME-NT (cement).