[Hardcore Windows 98] Windows ME Kicks Ass!

I think it's about time Windows ME is given a more fair evaluation. Everyone told you it was SO BAD and you must always avoid it, but you'd be surprised to see it'll carry you a long way!

Out of the box, Windows ME includes support for generic USB storage devices, making it really convenient for those who use such things regularly and need to get some drivers loaded quickly. Speaking of which, Windows ME also includes a good plentiful more drivers of its own, so if all your hardware is from 1999, chances are everything will be loaded out of the box.

Windows ME adapts a number of important shell improvements from Windows 2000 to the 9x family so as to justify having a webby shell in there in the first place. Not only that, it also introduces a number of consumer programs, including a greatly revamped Windows Media Player better suited for managing tons of audio files, and Windows Movie Maker, the original incarnation of something that would prove to be vital in the golden age of YouTube.

Although Windows ME removes the ability to drop to a real mode MS-DOS environment, it is still just as capable of running most DOS programs as its predecessors would be. The removal of real mode DOS booting may have been a serious drawback for technical users, but as Windows ME specifically targeted average home consumers, it may have been for the better. Any underlying real mode components could be detrimental to the stability of Windows 9x, and the guy who just wants to run his leftover copy of Doom probably wouldn't care that much about technicalities as long as video and sound still work.

Meanwhile, Windows XP is still sucking fart balloons and had no reason to exist. Its updated NTVDM was poorly executed. Good thing DOSBox exists now!

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[upgrade]

The only thing I hated about ME was the removal of real mode dos support.

[judewestburner]

The whole explorer to web browser lol what was that about!!!