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The GP actually praised Windows XP SP2, not Windows Me. Now one could argue that in some ways, Windows XP was a regression and Windows 2000 was the peak. But no

The GP actually praised Windows XP SP2, not Windows Me. Now one could argue that in some ways, Windows XP was a regression and Windows 2000 was the peak. But not Windows Me; that's widely regarded as the worst of the doomed 9x line.

foxfluff 5y ago
Right, I don't really know anyone who seriously used ME. I guess some people who bought prebuilt computers at an unfortunate time might have been stuck with it for some time. The people I know held on to 98 (or 98SE) for as long as it served them, and then switched to 2000 or XP. I also never saw ME in schools, libraries, corporate settings, etc.
horsawlarway 5y ago
Sure - and apparently we're all happy to claim that "today is the worst - yesteryear was fantastic!" And then ignore all the stinking piles of garbage that actually made up the past. This is nostalgia in action. Those rose-tinted goggles have slipped down over your eyes. You remember "Windows 2000 was great", you don't remember "Windows ME was so bad it was literally (not metaphorically literally - literally literally) unusable, and Microsoft STILL SHIPPED IT!".
- mwcampbell 5y ago
  > Those rose-tinted goggles have slipped down over your eyes. I never actually said I agreed with the nostalgia; I was just clarifying the position of the person you were replying to, and what I perceive to be widely held opinions. > Windows ME was so bad it was literally (not metaphorically literally - literally literally) unusable Perhaps it was that bad for some people. If so, that's unfortunate. But I ended up with Windows Me sometime in college, and it was usable enough that I used it to develop and ship the first few versions of the first commercial software product that I was hired to develop. So it wasn't that bad. Still, once I could afford a PC with Windows XP, I got one and never looked back.
  - hyperman1 5y ago
    Windows ME was strange. In some computers it was a modernized Win98, not really better or worse. On others, it caused all kinds of crashes, including total irrecoverable data loss on hard disks. One of the weirdest examples I know of was a particular series of desktops, sold in the supermarket with ME. I knew 2 people buying identical machines in the same week from the same supermarket. One of them worked flawlessly. The other one was such a miserable crash prone machine. We forced Win98 on the crasher and all was well again.

foxfluff 5y ago

Right, I don't really know anyone who seriously used ME. I guess some people who bought prebuilt computers at an unfortunate time might have been stuck with it for some time. The people I know held on to 98 (or 98SE) for as long as it served them, and then switched to 2000 or XP. I also never saw ME in schools, libraries, corporate settings, etc.

horsawlarway 5y ago

Sure - and apparently we're all happy to claim that "today is the worst - yesteryear was fantastic!" And then ignore all the stinking piles of garbage that actually made up the past. This is nostalgia in action. Those rose-tinted goggles have slipped down over your eyes. You remember "Windows 2000 was great", you don't remember "Windows ME was so bad it was literally (not metaphorically literally - literally literally) unusable, and Microsoft STILL SHIPPED IT!".

mwcampbell 5y ago
> Those rose-tinted goggles have slipped down over your eyes. I never actually said I agreed with the nostalgia; I was just clarifying the position of the person you were replying to, and what I perceive to be widely held opinions. > Windows ME was so bad it was literally (not metaphorically literally - literally literally) unusable Perhaps it was that bad for some people. If so, that's unfortunate. But I ended up with Windows Me sometime in college, and it was usable enough that I used it to develop and ship the first few versions of the first commercial software product that I was hired to develop. So it wasn't that bad. Still, once I could afford a PC with Windows XP, I got one and never looked back.
- hyperman1 5y ago
  Windows ME was strange. In some computers it was a modernized Win98, not really better or worse. On others, it caused all kinds of crashes, including total irrecoverable data loss on hard disks. One of the weirdest examples I know of was a particular series of desktops, sold in the supermarket with ME. I knew 2 people buying identical machines in the same week from the same supermarket. One of them worked flawlessly. The other one was such a miserable crash prone machine. We forced Win98 on the crasher and all was well again.