Name: The Windows Me Experience: Was It THAT Bad?
Uploaded: 2020-04-26T18:26:18.000Z
Duration: 29 min 49 s
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You know, this is a fascinating product really,

and despite my own mixed personal experiences with it,

just looking back at this thing's release, its reception

I mean, it's just become one of the most often maligned

and highly criticized Microsoft operating systems

Whether that's completely deserved or not,

let's hopefully figure some of that out in this video.

But yeah, either way, Millennium Edition has appeared

on so many different lists of the worst tech products ever

And it's become the subject of memes, the butt of jokes

and is often called something like Mistake Edition

or Major Embarrassment or Multiple Enemas or whatever

people wanna say that Me actually stands for.

The ongoing narrative being that it was so bad that it led

or not even bother changing anything with their OS

at all, especially since Windows XP was just around

This came out in well, it was released to manufacturing

in June 19th of 2000 and actually hit store shelves

September 14th, 2000 meaning that it remained current

for a little over a year and that was that.

Now as for my own personal thoughts as to whether

or not this was really as bad as everyone says.

Well, to be honest, at the point I'm recording this

in at least 18 years I had it on my Compaq Presario 5000US

I used it for a year, maybe two I believe

and it just got so unstable at that point that I did

actually downgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition

and that worked a lot better, at least in my recollection.

Either way I was not a fan of it back then

and I've always had lingering feelings about Me ever since.

And yes, it is officially pronounced 'Me' just the way

You'll often hear it said 'M.E.' and as far as I'm concerned

But if you look at old articles and the press

and such, you've got journalists and Microsoft reps

then that it was meant to be said 'Me' for better or worse,

There were lots of 'Meet Me' ads and 'Me is the operating

It's still an initialism standing for Millennium Edition

of course, but the PR really wanted to try

because that was another beast entirely sold

And it was really meant for business and enterprise users,

whereas Millennium Edition was meant to be the next big

And originally it was actually gonna be based

on the NT kernel and file system like Windows 2000 was,

it ended up being the final Windows built on top of MS-DOS

and there are several videos going more in depth

In fact, there's one by Science Elf I watched not too long

ago, I recommend that. But right now I'm more interested

in seeing whether or not it really was the best

in digital media and improved user experience,

enhanced whole networking and a rich internet experience

Plus I have this big box version here of the full

Something I didn't get until recently because

this has oddly enough, become somewhat hard to find,

especially sealed and in complete in box like this.

Like I said, it came with my Compaq and as far as I can tell

that's the way most people got Millennium Edition

and was actually just a pre-installed thing.

Otherwise, there were three different versions

A $60 limited edition for upgrading Windows 98SE,

and 98 first edition users, and the $210 full version

And this is also one that if you bought it from CompUSA,

then you'd get a limited edition Windows Me watch

with the purchase of one of the first 25,000 units

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