Windows ME was far worse than Vista.
Posted on 07/14/2010 10:31:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A top Microsoft executive today compared Apple's iPhone 4 to his own company's problem-plagued Vista operating system.
"It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I'm okay with that," said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, in a keynote speech at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), which runs through Thursday in Washington, D.C.
The successor to Windows XP, Vista launched in early 2007 and was heavily criticized by users, and in a series of e-mails that became public during a class-action lawsuit, even by the company's own senior executives. The consensus, deserved or not, has become that Vista was one of Microsoft's worst operating systems.
Earlier in his talk, Turner poked fun at the reception problems that have dogged Apple's iPhone 4 since its June 24 launch. "One of the things I want to make sure you know today is that you're going to be able to use a Windows Phone 7 and not have to worry about how you're holding it to make a phone call," Turner said, referring to the Microsoft mobile operating system set to debut on smartphones this fall.
Complaints about the iPhone 4's call reception surfaced within hours of its release to retail, as buyers griped that touching the external antenna -- embedded in a steel band that encircles the case -- often dropped calls or caused the signal strength indicator to plummet. Apple acknowledged that holding the iPhone 4 could weaken the cellular signal, then a week later claimed that the iPhone 4's signal formula was flawed and promised to update the software.
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Heh.
I guess they are adding “no exposed antenna” to their minimum requirements.
Ouch! / LOL
Sounds like it’s just another piece of i-Junk...
Nothing will ever top Windoze ME for the title of "worst OS ever."
Windows ME was far worse than Vista.
Windblows 98 was my favorite OS to hate. But that may be because I was never the lucky owner of a ME machine. :)
Funny. Windows 7 (still a piece of crap) is (still) Microsoft's Vista.
With the iPhone, people have a choice. With Windows 7, Microsoft has eliminated ALL choices EXCEPT Windows 7.
I wouldn't be so quick to "mock" if I were Microsoft.
I have one word for you Microsoft:
Kin.
People who live in glass houses...
The real news is that MS finally admits that Vista was a fiasco.
Window 98 Second Edition was a good, stable operating system finally, after Windows 95 and Window 98.
Unfortunately, it came out just months before Window ME so relatively few new machines came with it installed.
LOL!!! So, true.
I used to spend my days programming in Delphi back when I upgraded my machine from Win95 to Win98. I went from rebooting 3-4 times per day to 15-20 times per day. I hated Windows 98 with a passion.
After less than a week of 98 I switched to NT/4 and was very happy.
98SE was a good OS in terms of usability in that it allowed/allows most DOS programs, and had compatibility with win 3.11, and win 95 programs as well. I find 98SE to be tons more “user friendly” than the solaris machines at my university’s CS lab. And, IMO a WIN98/DOS machine is superior for OS development than a Unix/Linux box precisely because of the pet “deficiencies” the Unix/Linux crowd decry: it lacks memory management. {This means that when writing & testing a new OS, if you’re in DOS, you don’t have to worry about being ‘compliant’ with your host OS’s memory management scheme, thus allowing you the freedom to implement your own.}
Might I ask: how do you like Delphi?
I haven’t been programming for several years, but back then (Late 90’s) I loved it. I chose Delphi 4 over VB because it integrated well with the Borland Database Engine, which is what the CRM package we were programming for was using.
Another advantage is that the end result was one executable. There was no need for my installer to put a bunch of VB dll’s on the client’s machines. We liked that a great deal.
I still have my Delphi 4 box here on the shelf. I haven’t used it in at least 3-4 years.
People who make Windows shouldn’t throw stones. Microsoft should simply shut up and drive on. MS has completely lost its way.
So, what happened to it ? Why is Delphi not as popular as it once was ?
For that matter, remember a tool called Powerbuilder ? There used to be humongous demand for it. Now, I don’t see it anymore.
I’m not entirely sure why Delphi isn’t as popular as it once was. I’m guessing that Borland lost interest, and the programming world just moved on past. The Borland Database Engine is miles behind the times these days, and the BDE was why I was using Delphi.
I loved how it all boiled down into a single executable file though. I could write something and distribute a single exe that created an INI file for configuration. No registry, no installation, no fuss, no muss. :)
I’m still using some programs that use the BDE, but when I need to connect to MSSQL 2005/2008(for example) I now need to create an ODBC pointer to the data source, and then use the BDE to point at the ODBC DSN. I don’t think the BDE has been updated since about ten years ago.
True. Win98SE with a good 3dfx voodoo card was the gold standard for gaming back in the day.
Windows NT 4.0 was a more stable platform, but did not have near the driver support that win98 had.
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