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And all those that had this bullshit pushed on them largely consider this a massive failure.

The real reason for the release was to switch from real mode to protected mode and to give developers a "hold over" OS that would allow both before later releases.

The TLDR for what that is for non-programmers/nerds its basically related to memory protection. That's the very, very, simple version.

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>Windows Millenium Edition, or Windows Me or Windows ME, was released June 19, 2000. It was the successor to Windows 98 SE and Microsoft’s least successful operating system since the late 1980s. It was Microsoft’s last operating system based on MS-DOS.

And all those that had this bullshit pushed on them largely consider this a massive failure. The real reason for the release was to switch from real mode to protected mode and to give developers a "hold over" OS that would allow both before later releases. **The TLDR for what that is for non-programmers/nerds its basically related to memory protection. That's the very, very, simple version.** Archive: https://archive.today/Rh4Hd From the post: >>Windows Millenium Edition, or Windows Me or Windows ME, was released June 19, 2000. It was the successor to Windows 98 SE and Microsoft’s least successful operating system since the late 1980s. It was Microsoft’s last operating system based on MS-DOS.
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Vista/Longhorn. Same problem. Same general idea.

"Tranny OS" to get companies and devs to "think different".

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I forgot about the abortion that was Vista.

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Yeah, that's accurate. Most people never even knew ME/Vista existed. Hell, some people don't even remember the POS that "Windows 8" was.

It's funny because Windows 11 gives me Windows 8 vibes in how shitty it is (when you are forced to use it). Fucking jeet's ruin everything. I mean, windows has always sucked but now it just sucks more.

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8 was such a piece of shit. That constant flipping between screens reminds me of using Bank Street Writer on a C64 where you had to flip between write and edit modes.

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Vista became usable after multiple service packs according to friends who used it, but by that time 7 was around the corner. Windows 7 was the last half-decent OS MS released. It only took two or three service packs, mostly security related. Vista took I think 6 service packs to become almost like W7 without its service packs.

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Windows XP was far better than ME for a thousand reasons. Plus, back in the day. If you wanted to game almost at all you had to run Windows (Dual boot for me)

Windows is a game system. Not a operating system. I use *nix for everything if I am not gaming. It's a lot easier to game on *nix now but some games still suck or don't run at all no matter how much effort you put in. As such, I still dual boot.

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XP was peak for it's time, and 7 was it's spiritual successor. Linux runs all of the games I care to play now. Windows is obsolete for my gaming purposes.