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Windows ME: Why the Critics Were Wrong

Monday, 20 July 2020
Bob Leggitt
For some home PC users in late 2001, Windows ME was probably better value for money than Windows XP. There, I've said it...
Windows ME
Windows ME looking classy with the custom theme Serendipity, and the oldest surviving page on the Internet loaded into Firefox. Does that *really* look like the worst PC operating system of all time?

Flick back through a PC magazine from early autumn 2001, and you’ll see something which, today, looks quite bizarre. You’ll find new PCs being advertised by retailers with this proud boast headlining the software spec…

“Operating system: Windows 98SE”

Latter 2001? Windows 98? Doesn’t sound right, does it?…