3 reasons Windows ME was universally hated

Released back in 2000, the Windows Millennium Edition was a weird operating system. Its predecessor, Windows 98, was marketed as the last DOS-based Windows 9x operating system for home users. Despite its unstable nature at the time of its launch, the second version of Windows 98 was still going strong, and there wasn't much of a need for another OS that relied on the DOS kernel in the consumer space.

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