Hey, WinME was a killer app! MS were really smart with it and if they used the same philosophy with vista, how different things could have been!
WinME killed so many systems, user experiences and expectations that when 2k came along every one was so pleased to upgrade (nt4 was never really pushed to users) :) W.Kenworthy On 01/02/2012, at 1:30, "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote >>> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a >>> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won $5. >> >> I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it >> I was using Win95 - and was happy with it >> I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it >> I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it >> I was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it >> I was using Win7 - and was happy with it >> >> And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user since >> 1.something (but up until now just on the servers). >> >> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation (Gentoo) >> and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago. >> >> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults. > > I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've been even > more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly tried to ram ActiveX > down people's throats. Remove ActiveX, and 99% of "drive-by-downloads" > would've disappeared. WinME was a sad joke, however. > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> >
