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when you think of the worst version of Windows ever you might think of Vista

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which performed sluggishly out of the box or 98 which was so ridden with bugs

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that Microsoft was forced to release a second edition or even Windows 8 in

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which Microsoft axed the much beloved start menu and instead tried to shove a

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mosaic of gimmicky live tiles down our throats it was very uncomfortable but

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aside from these Greatest Hits One Windows version stands Head and

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Shoulders Above the Rest as a monument to failure Windows Millennium Edition

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better known as Windows me or Windows me

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for those who refuse to buy into the cheesy marketing but why was it so bad

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Microsoft had plenty of time to learn from common gripes people had with

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Windows 95 and 98 the biggest one being how often the OS would blue screen or

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straight up crash to be fair to Microsoft they did have a pretty good

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solution to this move home users onto a version of Windows built on the much

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more stable NT kernel which of course they eventually did with Windows XP key

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in 2001 however Microsoft originally wanted an NT edition of Windows for home

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users before the end of 2000 but due to how much development time was required

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Windows me was released instead in June of that year it was the third major

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Windows release in the 9x series and while it was designed to be easier for

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home users it was somehow worse than its

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predecessors due to how unstable it was but with Windows 9x already having a bad

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reputation for stability how was it possible for Microsoft to allow Windows

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me to be even more frustrating we'll tell you right after we thank jackery

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winning some great prize the biggest problem with Windows me was

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probably that it didn't really know who it was although it was firmly part of

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the Windows 9x family Microsoft tried to drag Windows Millennium Edition into the

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New Millennium by stripping away some of the MS-DOS components older versions of

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Windows relied on but not all of them the idea was to improve boot times but

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many applications that relied on dos just stopped working even if you weren't

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running any dos based programs though there was a very good chance you'd have

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Hardware that would start acting up although Windows me had higher minimum

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requirements than its predecessor Windows 98 they weren't that much higher

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meaning that many users thought they wouldn't have too many issues installing me without upgrading their Hardware

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unfortunately though enough had changed under the hood with Windows me including

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a restructured registry to give thousands of users massive headaches

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when their old Windows 95 and 98 drivers simply would not work with the new

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operating system what was really infuriating is that Microsoft faced

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similar issues when it is customer upgraded to Windows 98 from 95 yet again

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they didn't adequately ensure enough driver support when me hit store shelves

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complicating matters further was the fact that me attempted to handle two

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different driver standards one from the Windows 95 era and one from the Windows

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98 era and these drivers had a tendency

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to conflict they don't like each other and while it was possible in some cases

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for tech savvy users to find workarounds the problem was that Windows me was

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specifically marketed as being Microsoft's first ever entirely home

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oriented operating system meaning that it was supposed to be simple and

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reliable for the average Joe or Jane at home and I'm pretty sure booting up and

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having multiple pieces of hardware and software simply refused to work is the

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opposite of simple now let's be fair Windows me wasn't all bad it introduced

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some important features that have held on to this day including system restore

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automatic Windows updates and generic drivers that enabled the OS to recognize

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any USB flash drive as soon as you plugged it in but considering the fact

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that Windows me was an overall nightmare for home users it wasn't a surprise that

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Microsoft finally pulled the plug on the old Windows 9x ecosystem in 2001 and now

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it's time for us to pull the plug on this video I've got NT kernels in the

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microwave can't wait hey that's it for this video

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