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by petemcc
ME is pretty much 98 with some extra bells and whistles. It's targeted mainly to new PC purchases. It supposedly gives better support for home networking, multimedia and maybe better PnP functions.
I've heard of some difficulties upgrading over an existing OS but not as much on fresh installs.
If you're happy with the way 98se is working there's not really a whole lot of reasons to change to ME. If you're buying a new box, there's nothing wrong with getting ME.
As a side note I heard somewhere MS is going to stop supporting 9x in a couple of years, and XP is altogether another story.
by ebob
If you're Win98 is running and you're happy with it, then save yourself the money and possible heartache by avoiding ME.
Have a search through the TR archives and you'll find lots of discouraging thoughts especially around "upgrading".
With new purchases you might not have a lot of choice. But even with that you can't be sure of running clean and easy (I will resist the urge to whine, again, about my own WinME experience!).
by thegodfather
Windows 98 always has and will run circles around M.E.
The only reason people have M.E. is because they get it free with their machine. Or they are new to the digital world and think they are starting at the top. Basically always pick 98 over M.E, but look out for XP which is going to clean the floor with them all.
by radiic
I was curious as how you came to the conclusion that "w98 always has and will run circles around M.E." I wasn't aware of a complete redesign of the OS to make M.E. I thought that M.E. was just W98 with some new features. If you know more about, please do tell.
As for the original discussion: I agree no need to upgrade W98Se to ME and cause yourself headaches. The patches available at the windows update site make it pretty stable and secure. My laptop came with ME and I like some of the newfeatures of it, but not enough to go around and upgrade my entire network with it.
by saramiller
by rzan
by ebob
Hey everybody, let's calm down. This "babygrl282" is from AOL, so we have to assume that it (he? she?) has some serious IT handicaps. So it drops completely irrelevant posts in these discussions, but this is out of stupidity and/or ignorance, but I am sure there is no malice.
I have seen posts in other threads this morning from "babs", with the same amazing non-sequitir theme.
Let's just all ignore it's posts.
Here's a thought to lighten things up: Ignorance can be cured, but stupidityis forever!
by r.robillard
by d. brock
I haven't been overly impressed with either 98 or ME, but with XP coming out soon I would just wait for that, or just keep 98. There may be some compatibity issues with DOS based programs you have so be aware of this when you upgrade.
I have both98 and ME but don't find much difference except for some bells and whistles.
by radiic
Funny thing just happened, I installed bearshare on my laptop here at the office. Well it promptly screwed up and ruined all my network settings and was causing alot of errors. I went to a new system tool that is included in ME called system restore. I wouldnt have known about it, but i had read an article talking about it either here or on ZDnet. I had my doubts about it but tried it anyway.
I started the program it asked me what date i wanted to go back to and i chose yesterday and clicked next. The ole progress bar went by and then asked me to reboot (of course) and BAMMMMMMMMMMMMM Everything is working just fine. I was so shocked that it actually worked, I thought of this discussion and had to come back and put in another post.
Damn I wish something like that was in W9x you know how many hours I would have saved over the past few years>
Rad
by c-plus
I'm currently using me at my laptop and 98 at my stationary pc, and i havent found the so called benefits yet, ist not faster, its not smaller, its not easier to use, its basically the same, so save your money for now and keep your trusted 98, but of course this is my opinion only.
meike
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