Journal Journal: Why Windows ME was the redheaded stepchild.
In my opinion, Windows Millennium Edition was the fall guy for the evolution of Microsoft operating systems. A mere putty to fill the gap between Windows 98/2000 and Windows XP.
Windows ME was released in July 2000. However, it only lived exclusively for about a year and three months before XP crashed the party in October 2001.
Now, I wouldn't write it off as a wasted investment on the part of Microsoft, due to the fact that ME was basically a Win98 upgrade with a new GUI and a few new core features....but don't you think it's perplexing to the average user that Microsoft released TWO home operating systems in the span of 15 months?
Take the XP to Vista thing we have here. Vista is being released 6 years after XP was, but this can only prove my point further, as Windows 98 was released in June 1998. XP was released 3 years later in 2001. Did we REALLY need Windows ME? We've lasted this long with XP, haven't we? Most consumers trying to keep up bought Windows ME, then turned around sometimes mere months later and bought a copy of XP.
It could've been a marketing scheme, in which MS figured it could rake in some serious cash by offering two home OSs back to back, but was it REALLY worth the effort to push ME, to advertise it, to support it, only to watch it become old news in less than two years?
It is of my honest opinion, without bias (I think ME was a decent OS), that Windows ME was totally unnecessary, much like firing a bazooka at a fly on the wall, when in reality, you only need a flyswatter.
Microsoft, was it REALLY necessary to knock out a whole wall for for something that could've been accomplished with a little bit of patience?
Windows ME was released in July 2000. However, it only lived exclusively for about a year and three months before XP crashed the party in October 2001.
Now, I wouldn't write it off as a wasted investment on the part of Microsoft, due to the fact that ME was basically a Win98 upgrade with a new GUI and a few new core features....but don't you think it's perplexing to the average user that Microsoft released TWO home operating systems in the span of 15 months?
Take the XP to Vista thing we have here. Vista is being released 6 years after XP was, but this can only prove my point further, as Windows 98 was released in June 1998. XP was released 3 years later in 2001. Did we REALLY need Windows ME? We've lasted this long with XP, haven't we? Most consumers trying to keep up bought Windows ME, then turned around sometimes mere months later and bought a copy of XP.
It could've been a marketing scheme, in which MS figured it could rake in some serious cash by offering two home OSs back to back, but was it REALLY worth the effort to push ME, to advertise it, to support it, only to watch it become old news in less than two years?
It is of my honest opinion, without bias (I think ME was a decent OS), that Windows ME was totally unnecessary, much like firing a bazooka at a fly on the wall, when in reality, you only need a flyswatter.
Microsoft, was it REALLY necessary to knock out a whole wall for for something that could've been accomplished with a little bit of patience?
