Is Vista the New ME?
November 4, 2008 – 1:48 pmFor everyone that was around and on computers for the whole Y2K phenomenon, you'll remember Windows Millennium Edition (or ME). This was an OS that failed at nearly everything you could throw at it. It was not user friendly at all. Too many of the functions had changed from previous versions of Windows, making the learning curve much steeper than an upgrade should have. At the same time, nothing significant was added to make it more useful. The OS was buggy and slow. Only two years later, XP came out. XP is said by many to be the best OS designed to date. It has been the primary OS used for the last 8ish years. Well, is Vista going to be experiencing the same short lifespan as ME, or is Vista just the beginning of Microsoft's extremely bloated releases? Whether the second is true ...