windows ME

[Ennis]

XP is very expensive in my opinion for an Os.

[petemcevoy]

Price is all relative, you ever have to buy a nt4 server license or terminal services client access licences for clusters that serve 1000's of people - now thats expensive.

[LegacyBoy]

I know the ME is off 98,
and 2000 is off NT

but besides that its the same OS
same features
driver signing
and that really neat little shawdow under da mouse,

and you dont have to be such a rude tuff guy

[stflook]

I agree with you. I ran the beta version of Windows ME before it came out, and it rendered my computer totally unusable. That's unacceptible even for a beta version. Everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) gave me illegal operation errors, and more often than not, it wouldn't come out of a screensaver. I couldn't leave my computer from fear that it would die while I was gone.
If you want a good OS, get Windows 2000. Security and stability are great. It's even better than Windows XP (which I have also beta tested).

[stflook]

Originally posted by LegacyBoy


Ok

WINME = Bastard child of WIN2000

nuf said!
LB

Legacyboy:

If you don't know what you're talking about, don't say anything. Windows ME and Windows 2000 have almost nothing in common. They serve entirely different purposes.

[larryjs]

However thought of the way that the dos prompt is handled makes me want to PUKE

[stflook]

Originally posted by neel
win 95 is very fast and you can rebuild it totally

It's also extremely outdated. I would recommend Windows 2000 instead.

[prof3ssor]

ME is stellar for games and pics but nothing else.

The 'show thumbnails' concept is second only to the fact that ME treats zip files as almost normal directories. That is really cool considering how much time you save. I have had the BSOD only about a dozen times in the last ten months. That must be a world record!

format /s grrrrrr. how could they do that! those bastards!

for years I have debugged computers using boot disks and now suddenly they take the priveledge of doing it automatically away from me! #@$#%$

calm down...Ahh okay you still can make boot disks on a winME only system but they are crap. I suggest keeping that old 486DX that you have lying around in working order with 6.22 on it.

[ThePreacher]

winMe = why the hell did i buy this crap

Good question. Save up and get yourself a bicycle or maybe a dvd player. Dont buy windows me.

[UberC0der]

Seems like everyone who has had any exeprience with WinMe has known it is a piece O' [insert swear word] for well over a year now.

WinMe = Win98SE with new dress, confusing similarity to Win2000 in menu navigation, and some bugs they had forgotten to put in Win98.