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I think it was a combination of all a lot of new tech was being dumped on the tail end of Windows 95/98 combined a bit of sloppyness in how it was deployed. Did

I think it was a combination of all a lot of new tech was being dumped on the tail end of Windows 95/98 combined a bit of sloppyness in how it was deployed. Didn't help seeing how well Win 2K could handle this stuff with its NT kernel despite coming out before ME.

alganet 1y ago
Windows 98 Special Edition had a lot of new tech and it was cool and stable. I wonder which stuff you are thinking when you say this. Which tech do you have in mind?
- SlowTao 1y ago
  This is more a general statement, keep in mind it has been almost 25 years since I used ME. More it was at the mercy of the software industry of the time. Development of complex utilities from video editing to web browsers being more than just HTML viewers and fighting over limited memory trying to manage a high stack of rapidly more complex drivers and ME just didn't handle it that greatly. The modem, printer, high end GPU's and audio systems all fighting to work together. It just seems like the whole Windows system pre-NT was struggling to stay together. Cue the famous Win 98 demonstration crashing the system via a Plug and play scanner. Win 98 SE was in a bizarre stable state, ME wasn't and the differences under the hood could have been something that appeared fairly minor.
  - alganet 1y ago
    Maybe there is some ME (Mandela Effect) in the perception of what Windows ME was (pun intended). I used it (Windows ME, not Mandela Effects), but I wasn't knowledgeable enough to understand what caused the kernel crashes and instabilities. I couldn't say if it was some driver or something. Maybe it was Winamp, I honestly woudn't know. Anyway, if there's any hope for a verifiable technical reason on more solid grounds than general statements, this would be the place to find it, don't you think? There are so many articles that go into rabbit-hole level detail about all sorts of things here.
- Jtsummers 1y ago
  Windows 98 Second Edition, not Special Edition. The name is a hint of why it was more stable. They fixed a lot of issues in that release. Windows Me never got a chance for a second edition to improve its issues.

alganet 1y ago

Windows 98 Special Edition had a lot of new tech and it was cool and stable. I wonder which stuff you are thinking when you say this. Which tech do you have in mind?

SlowTao 1y ago
This is more a general statement, keep in mind it has been almost 25 years since I used ME. More it was at the mercy of the software industry of the time. Development of complex utilities from video editing to web browsers being more than just HTML viewers and fighting over limited memory trying to manage a high stack of rapidly more complex drivers and ME just didn't handle it that greatly. The modem, printer, high end GPU's and audio systems all fighting to work together. It just seems like the whole Windows system pre-NT was struggling to stay together. Cue the famous Win 98 demonstration crashing the system via a Plug and play scanner. Win 98 SE was in a bizarre stable state, ME wasn't and the differences under the hood could have been something that appeared fairly minor.
- alganet 1y ago
  Maybe there is some ME (Mandela Effect) in the perception of what Windows ME was (pun intended). I used it (Windows ME, not Mandela Effects), but I wasn't knowledgeable enough to understand what caused the kernel crashes and instabilities. I couldn't say if it was some driver or something. Maybe it was Winamp, I honestly woudn't know. Anyway, if there's any hope for a verifiable technical reason on more solid grounds than general statements, this would be the place to find it, don't you think? There are so many articles that go into rabbit-hole level detail about all sorts of things here.
Jtsummers 1y ago
Windows 98 Second Edition, not Special Edition. The name is a hint of why it was more stable. They fixed a lot of issues in that release. Windows Me never got a chance for a second edition to improve its issues.