Prior to the release of ME, Microsoft gave away free copies to winners in their contest. I got one of the "advanced commemorative" copies of ME (about 1 week prior to the official release date). Within a year, I had reformatted my HDD and installed W98 again. Just my luck; I finally win something in a contest, and it had to be Win ME. Why couldn't it be the Powerball jackpot instead? ME SUCKS!
My goodness, what an unfortunate way to phrase it.