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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 act

• 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.