Windows ME was far worse than Vista.
Posted on 07/14/2010 10:31:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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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