It wasn't the pets' fault.
For that matter, it wasn't really the developers' fault -- they were told, ordered, to break ME, so that it would kill the MS-DOS-based line of Windows.
As you know, Windows was originally just an application over MS-DOS. That was Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 95, 98, 98SE, and finally ME. Meanwhile Microsoft had developed the Windows NT line, and they knew it had to eat the older line. But 98SE was popular and it would take some doing to get it out of people's hands.
So after NT-4.0, they renamed NT-5 to "Windows 2000" and made a successor to 98SE and called it "Millenium Edition". That was allegedly so that people would confuse the two and Microsoft could effect a swapperoo.
But that wasn't enough. ME was designed to be broken on arrival. It sucked because they wanted it to suck so bad that users would drop it on the floor and flock to the new NT line, Windows 2000 and soon, Windows XP (in 2001).
And they did.
So what say we leave the developers' pets out of it? :)
Remember. Abort Retry Flail?
They should have cut the tether cord on this one along time ago.. Products and such come and go so fast.. Its a war out there.
>>It wasn’t the pets’ fault.<<
I know — I was trying to avoid the famous Lyle Alzado trash talk: “I will kill your family and let you live!”
That dude could trash talk!