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In the consumer OS space, the predecessor to Windows XP wasn't Windows 2000, it was Windows ME (which was a disaster).
by fpgeek 14y ago
In the consumer OS space, the predecessor to Windows XP wasn't Windows 2000, it was Windows ME (which was a disaster).
- majormajor 14y agoWell, I don't think ME and Vista fit anything like the same pattern. Vista was an extremely messy release but nevertheless brought several big underlying improvements. ME didn't. It wasn't a "tick" at all. Trying to fit it and Vista into the same pattern is getting too pattern-happy. And even in the consumer space, how long do you have to go back before ME to find a dud? Windows 2?
- fpgeek 14y agoWell, I'd say ME is at least related to the pattern. IIRC, it wasn't supposed to exist at all. You could describe it as a "failure-to-tick": Microsoft wasn't ready to switch to the Windows NT codebase for a consumer version of Windows, so we got Windows ME (note that XP came out about a year later). That being said, I agree that the pattern doesn't go back beyond ME. Which does make me wonder: what changed?