Who 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 activ

Who 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).