. Definitely you should upgrade to the latest Windows operating system, Windows Millennium, especially for the improved desktop.
System requirements for running Windows ME
Minimum Recommended x86 CPU : Pentium, 150 MHz Memory: 32 MB Hard drive: 320 MB
If you have any problems with this advanced system, contact dayglored
You may well laugh at WinME, it more than earned everyone's derision.
But Win98 SE (Second Edition) was actually a very good single-user, personal (non-business), non-internet OS. It had no security to speak of, but then, those were arguably more innocent days. :-)
I have a VM (virtual machine) of Win98SE. On modern hardware it screams, and it runs my few remaining ancient 90's applications, frankly just as well as Win7 does.
But rather than upgrade to WinME, I would either stay with Win98SE or migrate to WinXP. Granted, Win2000 defined my ideal desktop GUI, and forever afterward, my first steps when installing a fresh copy of XP or 7 is to set the desktop GUI back to Win2000 mode. The fact that Win10 blocks me from doing so (even with the addition of ClassicShell) is one of the reasons I refuse to run Win10 as my default Windows environment. I have a Win10 VM around for software compatibility testing, and to run a few Win10-only applications, but no more than that.
So I'd say, stick with Win98SE if that's what you like. Why? Because it's NOT vulnerable to this attack!! LOL, seriously; AFAIK this vulnerability like most other ones these days, only affects the NT-based editions.
OTOH, stay the heck off the internet with Win98 or any of the DOS-based Windows. They're totally vulnerable to a million other attacks.
#13 I still use the blue background color of windows in that photo. I have Windows 7.