Timeline for What made Windows Me so crash-prone?
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| Jan 19, 2021 at 17:27 | comment | added | user3840170 | The question asks what objective evidence exists to support a subjective opinion of Millenium’s instability; this post responds to it with even more subjective opinion. This isn’t even a tongue-in-cheek answer, it’s a non-answer. Especially that most people who repeat this silly meme have to stretch what counts as a ‘release’ in order to make it fit their personal view. | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 11:48 | comment | added | NibblyPig | Windows 2000 wasn't really a home user OS, although because of the issues with ME I ended up using it. IIRC it was missing one or two home-user cuddly type features as it was aimed at the professional market, so it's reasonable it doesn't make the list. | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 7:05 | comment | added | Luaan | @Benno Nah. In reality, most of the trouble comes from misbehaving hardware, drivers and software; by the time the second ("minor") version comes along, most of the issues with the previous one are fixed, and you get a better experience. 95 was start of a new line (very little hardware variety), 98 was every bit as good as 95; ME was more pointless than bad (with some compatibility loss), Vista mostly had issues with drivers (64-bit drivers and GPU being major) and software that just had to have admin privileges for everything; there was very little MS had to change for 7. 8 was something new. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 21:16 | comment | added | Justin Time - Reinstate Monica | Might also be worth looking at service packs, since Vista's second service pack made it good, and its third service pack (a.k.a. Win 7) made it phenomenal. ;P | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 17:20 | comment | added | jmbpiano | Windows 8 - flaky; Windows 8.1 - good; Windows 10 - perpetual state of flux (thanks to the constant updates) | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 16:53 | comment | added | Wildcat Matt | There's also the potential here for more pedantry: I always thought Win95 Retail was shaky and only got it right with Win95 OEMSR2. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 16:51 | comment | added | Wildcat Matt | I'm amused how the perception is the reverse of classic Star Trek movies (eg, "only the even-numbered movies are good"), in this case "only the odd releases are good" | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 15:29 | comment | added | Benno | The flakey ones always seem to come after a long wait - so users have got used to how things work. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 14:49 | comment | added | Cullub | Aw come on. Just because it's new doesn't mean it has to be bad. Win10 is a lot better than 8, and I'd consider it good. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 14:12 | comment | added | JBentley | I was with you until "Windows 10 - good" | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 10:06 | comment | added | Mick | @JeremyP let's not have facts get in the way of the story ;-) | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 10:00 | comment | added | Mark Booth | And Windows NT. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 9:55 | comment | added | OrangeDog | You missed Windows 2000. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 9:52 | comment | added | JeremyP | Windows XP does not belong in the same line as windows ME. It’s the successor to Windows 2000. The windows 95 sequence should end at me. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 8:49 | history | answered | Mick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |