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I read your "ME(biggest joke of them all)" comment with much amusement. I read the notes of a round table discussion wherein a senior M$ exec. (obviously without thinking) commented that ME was the OS that never was.
It seems it was determined early on that the gap between 98/98SE and XP was going to be too great. So a hastily assembled team was assigned to recode more of the 16 bit code over to 32 bit, add some "enhancements" and market it as the next Windows. But the demands of XP continued to quickly strip team members from the ME project to a point where it was released with more "problems" than they would have liked to have. Meaning that releasing products with problems is the norm at M$, I guess. At ME Product intro time, the original team was now down to a skeleton group, with more people trying to abandon the ME ship daily.
I hear that a standing joke in the M$ exec area is: "ME?? Wasn't that a project from Sun Micro?"
Incidently, I also PAID for Wndows early on, starting with version 1.0!!! Man that was sooo bad on the old 286's!!! Still have the original disks as a reminder...
Last edited by Woogieman at Sep 27 2002, 08:43 AM
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