I don’t get why everyone’s so hostile to Windows Me. It was a perfectly good operating system for its time. It certainly didn’t crash on me any more than 98 did before it, or XP did after it. And it had some genuine improvements grandfathered in from Win2000.
That said, I’m now a Linux user, so my opinions are invalid /j
You are in the minority with your experience. Either you lucked out on ME or you had especially bad luck with XP.
Brand name PCs were being sold in 2000 with ME installed, that fresh out of the box would hang just trying to load the applications that were shipped with it.
Windows ME had the same fixed 64KB user resources and 64KB GDI resources memory limits as Windows 95 and Windows 98 for system resource allocation regardless of how much actual RAM you had. Since ME was more resource-intensive than the previous versions, you could run out of these resource allocations while still having very much free RAM much faster.
The end-result was the computer becoming unusable even though you had resources available that the OS could have otherwise used. Certain inefficient applications like I believe Quicken could snarf up all of the system resources so you had to restart with everything you could disabled to run that one application. Same computer on Win2K would run circles around WinME.
I don’t get why everyone’s so hostile to Windows Me. It was a perfectly good operating system for its time. It certainly didn’t crash on me any more than 98 did before it, or XP did after it. And it had some genuine improvements grandfathered in from Win2000.
That said, I’m now a Linux user, so my opinions are invalid /j
You are in the minority with your experience. Either you lucked out on ME or you had especially bad luck with XP.
Brand name PCs were being sold in 2000 with ME installed, that fresh out of the box would hang just trying to load the applications that were shipped with it.
Windows ME had the same fixed 64KB user resources and 64KB GDI resources memory limits as Windows 95 and Windows 98 for system resource allocation regardless of how much actual RAM you had. Since ME was more resource-intensive than the previous versions, you could run out of these resource allocations while still having very much free RAM much faster.
The end-result was the computer becoming unusable even though you had resources available that the OS could have otherwise used. Certain inefficient applications like I believe Quicken could snarf up all of the system resources so you had to restart with everything you could disabled to run that one application. Same computer on Win2K would run circles around WinME.
They broke stuff frequently and implemented half baked ideas that didn’t really go anywhere.
ME had the same problems as Vista and 8
By their end of life the next product was a good one because of the problems we went through with the half baked one.
ME brought us XP
Vista brought us 7
8 brought us 8.1
I think it was overall a step down from win2k but that was the best software Microsoft has ever shipped.