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| 78713 | 2002-09-12 09:00:00 | The OS I've had the most problems with was Win98 (both original and SE)... and then Linux, but that's because I know crapall about Linux and am in the process of teaching myself, so that doesn't really count anyway. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 78714 | 2002-09-12 09:21:00 | > "treat It right" - is this when u run a dual boot and > never actually boot windows ME. Dino, our Bruce (an avid gamer, by the way) uses Win ME (non dual boot) and he's happy with it. :O Maybe you have to know what you are doing, because the ones who do don't have bad things to say about it. ;-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 78715 | 2002-09-12 09:36:00 | In my experience you either like 98se or like ME not both. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 78716 | 2002-09-12 10:35:00 | Hey Mike is that from the Tauranga PC Company ? If it is then Its been sitting there for a few months last time I was in there it was there. I think it was an upgrade though not the full version. | Sam H (525) | ||
| 78717 | 2002-09-12 10:39:00 | Yeah, Tauranga PC Co. Is it still there? I haven't seen it there for a while - mind you, I never go in there, just see it through the window :) Bah if its an upgrade, I definitely don't want it :) I'd still need another version to make it run :) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 78718 | 2002-09-12 11:51:00 | I find this all very humourous on the ME subject, i find it very interesting that people who also seem to know nothing and open admit to it use the example of games, no one seems to talk about using ME for productivity purposes. Major problem : ME allows developers to access the main windows kernel, by doing this it does not allow for the software to crash, but the OS itself "tends" to crash. Although i agree windows ME can be made to run correct, i do not see the need to spend countless hours downloading updates and customisations just so i can run something that pervious and NT based solutions will run straight out of the box. I do agree that people tend to either like 98 or ME, i guess i am a 98 person if you take it like that. One thing that does seem wierd is that had windows been treated like say Office, then not only would you not be able to buy 98, but NT would no longer be supported, i guess that MS saw ME as a "Nice gimic" and shipped it on millions of OEMs, which as a technician myself see in for stupid needless servicing on problems i have never encountered on win 98 SE, all OS's go thru shaky starts, look at 98, but It seems to "ME" that with no service packs for ME and none looking likely, MS would far rather forget about its mistake and get on with servicing its NT based lineup, hence we see "Home Edition", not another failed home market 32 bit windows disaster. For those who no doubt will have strong feelings on my point above, or who perhaps got a ME OEM system, look at the number of "needed" updates u have in your installed program list and tell me that ME is a great OS. That is probably why XP is so popular, it actually has a driver database, it can actually give a "rice media experience" and u dont have to worry about restarting every 5 seconds when u want to try new software, i guess thats why windows XP and beyond, probably even pervious versions will see SP2 and beyond well before MS waste the resources on ME, Oops, guess this forum will have to get longer |
Dino (1855) | ||
| 78719 | 2002-09-12 12:04:00 | > I find this all very humourous here we go... > on the ME subject, i find it very interesting that > people who also seem to know nothing and open admit > to it use the example of games, no one seems to talk > about using ME for productivity purposes. who are you saying seem to know nothing? and what makes you such a self-proclaimed hotshot? I didn't see anyone in this thread talking about ME in regards to gaming machines. I certainly never used ME as a gaming OS. > Major problem : > ME allows developers to access the main windows > kernel, by doing this it does not allow for the > software to crash, but the OS itself "tends" to > crash. Although i agree windows ME can be made to run > correct, i do not see the need to spend countless > hours downloading updates and customisations just so If you needed to do this, you obviously didn't have ME working properly to start with. I said I never had any problems with ME... I didn't say that it was after I'd spent hours downloading updates. I have continued running ME without problems with no updates installed. And the main reason I moved up to XP is because I needed an NT based operating system to run Visual Studio.Net - this will not run on a 9x based OS, whether it's 95, 98, or ME. > It seems to "ME" that with no service packs for ME > and none looking likely, MS would far rather forget > about its mistake and get on with servicing its NT > based lineup, hence we see "Home Edition", not > another failed home market 32 bit windows disaster. > > For those who no doubt will have strong feelings on > my point above, or who perhaps got a ME OEM system, > look at the number of "needed" updates u have in your > installed program list and tell me that ME is a great ME is a great OS. > OS. That is probably why XP is so popular, it > actually has a driver database, it can actually give > a "rice media experience" and u dont have to worry > about restarting every 5 seconds when u want to try > new software, i guess thats why windows XP and > beyond, probably even pervious versions will see SP2 > and beyond well before MS waste the resources on ME, Tell me, how many SPs are there for other 9x based OSs? The reason why there are no SPs for ME is because MS has never made any service packs for a 9x OS - it has nothing to do with ME itself. And, to tell you the truth, I've had to download more in XP updates in the past year than I had to download as ME updates ever. > Oops, guess this forum will have to get longer Maybe so. And before you come into this forum proclaiming yourself to be some kind of expert, waving your beta OS around, try proving yourself to the forum first. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 78720 | 2002-09-13 01:28:00 | *sigh* I think Dino was just expressing his opinion, not proclaiming any "expertness". |
antmannz (28) | ||
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