Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-1496755-20180307192356

Roughtly speaking, ME is a souped-up version of 98 SE. But what it really is, is a lesson about overeagerness. Back in those times, Microsoft wanted to have one product for each market - Windows 2000 (a.k.a. NT 5.0) for the business market and ME for the home market. The problem is, they were so eager to make ME the best and ultimate member of the Win 9X series (which was already being made obsolete by the technologically superior NT series) that they pushed it too far, and the result was an OS which is fairly user-friendly, but also buggy and unstable. Funny thing - on the site where you got Win95 they have a small gallery of ME screenshots. And all of them are images of... blue screens of death :D

Eventually, Microsoft learned from their mistakes and united the home and business market under one product - Win XP (a.k.a. NT 5.1). And they did it right this time.

Fear not, if you ever decide to try out 98 as well, you can always count on my guidance. By the way, you probably didn't notice because it's not advertised in any way, but Win95 has DirectX 2.0. But the Dxdiag tool wasn't invented yet, so you can't really see any info about it.

Mmmm, my first attempt to use VirtualBox was a failure - its latest (at the time) version did not agree with my system for some reason and the virtual machines failed to launch. So I had to settle for an older version, which somehow worked right. The overall experience was frustrating and I shelved it for an indefinite time. I had practically given up...