[CP5670]

I used ME for three or four years. It never seemed any different from 98 to me. There was a minor bug with disabling system restore, but it ran all my programs fine.

[Mongoose]

We must have received the short end of the ME stick, then, because our family's old machine with that on it BSOD'd or locked up at least once a week, maybe more.  Didn't help matters that it was running on a seemingly particularly unstable collection of Dell hardware, but the OS itself had its share of issues.  Said old machine is currently running an XP install despite having too little RAM to properly run XP.

[S-99]

There was no point for the existence of ME aside from some of the borrowed abilities that it had from win2k (especially when you plug in usb mass storage), and that it made MS money on one hell of a huge ass fluke of an OS from MS. Win98 was considerably better stability-wise.

[Colonol Dekker]

By the time I get a new rig 7 will probably come as standard. Plus i'm in England :s

[Stealth]

definately run windows 7.  i've been playing around with it for the last few months whenever i have the chance - got it loaded up on one of my VMWARE boxes

[jr2]

...and that it made MS money on one hell of a huge ass fluke of an OS from MS...

Not worse than Windows 1.00 though.

Spoiler:

It was just a tech demo to keep people from buying one of two other competing OSes... and since MS claimed Windows just needed a few more tweaks before releasing, people waited.