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Upgrade to Me from 98???

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by jdporrata

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I have win98, should I upgrade to Win Me or stay with 98 and save some money?

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by rulds

GO and get yourself a 2000pro cd and through the piece of crap ME disk in the trash where it belongs. PRO is about the best OS microsoft has come out with to date. XP is built on the same kernal so if your using it just for the house you can go thatway. You get more admin. functionality if you go with pro though. I run pro and Advanced Server on my computers at home and really enjoy it.

by marshallkeithusa

Stick with what you have. . .Win ME is just win 98 with all of the patches and a modified kernel. . .plus if you need dos mode forget it they removed it. If you run a lot of games forget 2000 to it is just a newer version of NT. It is more stable than 98 but as with NT it is not a gaming OS

by ebob

I agree about avoiding ME. I have too many problems with a WinME box to think it is right. Specifically? IBM Ispirati with OEM WinME cannot run Micro$oft Age of Empires, without crashing the computer (BSOD or total lockup), unless I disable the Micro$oft supplied sound driver. Ever tried to play AoE w/o the sound? M$ support? don't make me laff! IBM support? They went to the same school: "So don't play that game."

Win2K IS great, but there are so many applications, mostly games, which will not run in W2K. I am glad I have 4 computers at home: W2K for most of my "work", Win98 for gaming and the kids' email (2x), and WinME for my wife's email and a bit of word processing.

My advice to you: stick with 98. From time to time, rebuild yoursystem. Wait for XP and see if ti will truly support the legacy apps, unlike W2K.

by nsantos

ME and 98SE are about equal in terms of stability. I would say that you should stick with Windows 98 or Upgrade to Windows 2000 Pro which is more stable. Some people will say that 2000 is not a gaming platform but since Microsoft has killed the windows 9x Kernal and is only using NT in Windows 2000 and in the upcomming XP OS, companies (even AOL) have added 2000 functionality to their software (They simply had no choice). So go with 2000 or stick with 98.

by timmitchell

nsantos, I have to disagree about the stability of Win98 being the same as WinME. I have supported Microsoft operating systems for some time now (including ME) and I have never been faced with a more unreliable piece of software. It's more buggy than Win95A. It does have some cool tools that Win95/8 didn't have, but how much good is a system recovery tool if you're going to recover a buggy OS?

JD, I would stick with Windows 98. If you want to learn the latest technology (Win2000), pick up an upgrade disk for about $100. Now, when asked, DON'T upgrade your Win98 installation; you'll want to install Win2K as a fresh install so you'll still have your Win98 platform for gaming and legacy apps.

Hope this helps. Enjoy!

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