So, who's going to go out and buy WindowsMe...

[merchant2112]

nope like win2k much better keep win98, on dual boot for those very few programs that will not run on win2k.


win 2 k is the way !!!


(untill something bewtter comes along.

[PurpleHaze]

There's actually a LOT of legacy code dating back even to 1979 - all the way to Windows 2000. Look at a book called "Windows 95 Unauthorized", I think it's out of print, though. It points out where all the legacy code is in '95, and a good 75% of that, from what i've checked, persists at least up to Win98SE.

But yes, even in Win2000, there's 21 year old code being executed.

Except for in Texas where they have an expedited appeals proccess.

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[LAMFDTK]

Hey HAZE get up and write......

[spoogenet]

Funny. So many people seem to be under a false impression that new code is better. Why is it that new code is better?

Just because an OS uses code that dates back quite a while does not mean it's innately bad.

DISCLAIMER: This is NOT to say that WinMe is good, or even works.

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[Thundrchez]

Nice abbreviation... WinME... WinMe

At least it is a heck of a lot better than WinCE, er, wince in agony and pain!

[Nuno]

I´m using win2k right now. Even if most of the win2k drivers for the hardware are very immature, it´s so much stable than win9x that´s almost unbelievable. Period. Win9x is fine since you don´t do anything complicated (like opening 5+ IE windows).

If WinME has *true* multitasking, full 32 bit code, decent memory management, it´ll be fine. But it will not, because it´s *based* in win9x kernel.

Yes, the code may have been improved, but it will always easily crash because of the whole mixed 16/32 bit thing. Only a complete rewrite of the kernel (like NT was) can fix it. Disadvantages? Poor legacy support.

[spoogenet]

Disadvantages? Poor legacy support.

Funny you mention that, because WinMe isn't supposed to really have legacy support in the first place. So since it has poor legacy support, I think it can be concluded that, for once, MS lived up to something they said they'd do. Well, if that's how you want to look at it.

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[Nuno]

Nope. Win ME has excelent legacy support. In a couple of previews with ME betas and RC all DOS based games worked fine, just as they did in win95/98.So MS-DOS is there, MS simply hide it.

Almost all win 9x device drivers work just fine in Win ME. It´s just Win98 Third edition, for God sake.

If that´s not legacy support...

Win NT hasn´t legacy support. Win2k is a major step forward, but it still lack broad software/hardware support as Win9x.

What makes me really angry is that MS still releases an OS based in 9x kernel. They should have been using NT kernel to unify platforms. I´m seeing game developers and hardware manufacturers driver teams slowing down NT support just because MS keeps selling win 95 5 years after. How poor.

[Himself]

Exactly, WinNT should have been the basis for Win98 at least, or if not that a much more aggressive step forward towards unification of the two. WinNT has been around for years and it's drivers are few and far between. What it does get tends to suck in terms of features, you see shades of that in win2k, just not as bad. Of course Win2K could be winNT plus win95 plus win98 in terms of size, if they make it any more compatible I think you'll need 2GB to run it. Unless MS does something it will get stuck in the same WinNT driver rut of getting second place support.

[xortam]

Two years ago, Microsoft was planning on using Windows 2000 as the platform for all of their OS markets. Win98 was going to be the last of the consumer OSes. Somewhere along the line, plans got changed.