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by roger99a

I suppose the inclusion of ME code would cause this thing to self distruct rather quickly.

Windows ME: The worst OS since MSDOS 4

by hal 9000

And swear by it although most that I've run across just swear at it instead.

I've only actually had one computer that I built that I tried to load ME on and after 15 minutes after it was loaded and my playing with it I wiped the drive and loaded 98 SE instead. I threw the OEM copy of ME to one side and I have not seen it since. ;)

Hopefully it has blocked up the "Black Hole" that seems to swallow everything that I want to keep and throws out all of the junk that I never want to see again.

Col ]:)

by deadly ernest

When I first saw this I thought you were saying that people love you, as in me - myself and I. But then I realised you were talking about Win Mutilated Edition (not allowed to swear - bishop don't like it)and thought you were crazy - people liking Win ME. Huh, only Billy boy does - all the way to the bank.

by deadly ernest

Gee, I thought, because of the way it did things, that it was the random typings of 6 chimpanzees. Then someone told me that MS did not use chimps for that, the chimps wrote XP, ME was done by a dying dog.

by hal 9000

I'd be saying that the dog was long dead before it was ever involved in writing that piece of ?????CODE.

Col ]:)

by tony hopkinson

six million, only six of 'em managed to type something that could be compiled.
That's what Bill meant, when he said initially the odds were against us.

by bfilmfan

Hands down the absolute worst GUI ever invented. I heard the Russians stole a case of computers that used Deskmate and missed the ones that ran Windows 3.0. The USSR eventually disintegrated!

by deepsand

How many GUIs were there for xDOS?

And, DeskMate was not really a GUI; rather, it was an application suite with a text based interface.

Granted, it was limited, but at the time, it was indeed a step forward for many DOS users.

by deadly ernest

The Hoffa version has to be the OS as it actually did something, the other is just an embedded application that does nothing.

by craig herberg

The original contractor used watered-down concrete, and Hoffa needed to be re-booted. There is no difference!

by jaqui

I know of one person who adores winders mangy edition.
she refuses to get new os.

by hal 9000

They are a real worry aren't they?

The worst thing is that when they buy new hardware they want their old copy of ME transfered to the new computer. :(

Bloody customers hard to live with and impossible to live without. :)

Col ]:)

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