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PeterB said a bad about a MSFT product:

Socrates

Mon Dec 10 10:05:25 2001

"PeterB
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Tribus: London, UK
Registered: May 10, 1999
Posts: 19092

 posted December 07, 2001 11:50    

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What does WinMe actually do that is worthy of such acrimony?
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It does its best to drag people into the early 1990s by making it harder for them to use real-mode DOS drivers and software.

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AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Mon Dec 10 20:51:22 2001

He's said that before.

Quite a number of times IIRC.

Magus

Mon Dec 10 20:59:10 2001

Why's that shocking? WinME is a POS, might as well come out and say it.
Imitation Gruel

Mon Dec 10 21:18:40 2001

The Win9x kernel is elephant spooge. With XP Home available, I wouldn't put 9x on someone's box unless they could provide documented proof of incompatibility, and then I'd be questioning the value of the incompatible app.
PaulHill

Mon Dec 10 21:20:53 2001

Hmph.

I started a whole damn thread about how shit Windows ME was (back when it launched, when it was relevent). It IS shite.

I think it made Easy Rhino leave. :(

Magus

Mon Dec 10 21:58:49 2001

Hey, yeah, I'd wondered what happened to him. Was he on the WinME team?
Jeremy Reimer

Tue Dec 11 08:11:58 2001

On comp.sys.mac.advocacy, I used to call Win ME the Moron Edition(tm)... clearly a useless product in the light of 98SE (if you absolutely had to run a 9x based product) and 2k.

Of course, that's what we run at work... :rolleyes:

HitScan

Wed Dec 12 13:27:34 2001


Of course, that's what we run at work...  :rolleyes:

Ah, the plight of the corporation. Being forced to spend money on things that it knows nothing about whilst the employees who do look on in shame. That's why I'm in charge of all computer purchases here :biggrin:
OscarWilde

Wed Dec 12 15:08:49 2001

meh i knew windows 9x sucked since day one. I hated windows 3, windows 95, 98, 98SE. Haven't played with ME to much but enough to know its crap.
I like windows NT but it isn't a consumer OS. Windows 2000 is a great OS.
I'm still curious to how XP matches up to 2K. The main thing is, DO I REALLY NEED IT?
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Dec 12 16:42:17 2001

I'm still curious to how XP matches up to 2K. The main thing is, DO I REALLY NEED IT?

PRolly not!

Riso

Wed Dec 12 16:45:53 2001

Of course you do! I know, I did!
Magus

Wed Dec 12 16:55:16 2001

I'd like to go to XP, but teh tuition comes first, I fear...
Jeremy Reimer

Wed Dec 12 22:52:40 2001

I honestly can't see a reason to upgrade to XP on my own computer.  I probably will at some point, but it just doesn't seem like a must-have upgrade over 2000, which I'm pretty happy with already.
DrPizza

Thu Dec 13 08:35:13 2001

I was being sarcastic.

IMO WinMe doesn't do anything to deserve the scorn heaped upon it.  Whilst I wouldn't care to run a 9x-kernel OS at all, if I had to, I would prefer to run WinMe.

Its great virtue is that it makes it harder for manufacturers to get away with criminally poor driver support.

But this upsets a lot of idiots.

Harbinger

Thu Dec 13 16:01:07 2001

Socrates:
PeterB said a bad about a MSFT product

Where have you been?  He's ragged on the Luna interface from around Day One. :biggrin: