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To: Scumbria who wrote (131491)	4/2/2001 4:07:56 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Jeez, I thought ME was intended as a throw away. It cut down on the legacy support as a short cut way to reduce conflicts. It added some audio visio gizmos for the college kids to help swap records and aid proshare type video. It was not intended to replace the wheel. Your point, that it came as standard equipment, is well taken, but every one that had been running win98se already has their conflicts worked out, and wouldn't need it or use it, they would just copy their old disk enmasse, or just swap the old disk as the primary disk. More serious users have win2000x and I would guess the purpose of ME then, was to boot up the new computer, to copy the old disk. I think it is intended for new users. It was never intended to be "upgraded" but I would assume, and I really don't know, that the "upgrade" would be to replace it with win2000X. Balmer, seemed to say when me was released that it had a status somewhat less than a maintenance release. Shouldn't someone like you be using 2k-pro?? Unless your using ME as a test platform. I am not a software person, (IRHNF'NC) but these are my observations.

To: Scumbria who wrote (131491)	4/2/2001 4:11:17 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Respond to of 186894

I guess I am glad I bit the bullet and upgraded my system to Win2k. It took me 4 days to move the Win98 system from one HD to another, and upgrade the new HD using the upgrade feature (as opposed to a clean install). After experiencing a variety of small little bugs in different software, I decided to do a clean install (adding another 1 day of effort). In the end W2k never crashes, I only reboot when installing new software (or W2k upgrades) - it has kept that annoyance. I have one system that still runs W98 (in case I need a W98 system), and I have been using that for an embedded project I am currently doing (I had to reboot that PC 3 times yesterday). I think you will be very happy with the XP upgrade once it arrives.