Frankly, I'm surprised as everyone else that Microsoft decided to make an "x Edition" after what was Millennium Edition. Is Satya Nadella that young to not remember?
Looks like a marketing strategy hoping that "Anniversary Edition" will make people think it's special somehow. Like the "Game of the year gold edition".
Impulses: "No, everyone's paranoia and memes have kept ME alive in the shared net consciousness... Only superseded by the Vista QQs."
Don't be fooled. Vista at launch was better than ME at its finest. There are some tweaks like disabling System Restore that can bring it within spitting distance, but an untweaked launch day Vista still gave pretty much everyone I've interacted with on the subject less trouble. Vista post-SP2 (Service pack after Win7 launch) can even be considered competent on many systems. This status I wouldn't bestow upon any Windows ME machines.
Note: Windows ME != Windows 2000.
Disclamer: The number of people's computers I build and work on is large (and probably statistically significant) for a single person's sample size, BUT "Anecdotal evidence is Anecdotal" and "Your milage may vary".
I remember buying a boxed Windows 95 for my 486 shortly after release at a big software market that obviously don't exist anymore thanks to the Internet. I was probably about 14.
Unfortunately it had no accelerated drivers for my Trident VLB video card and as a result was in many ways slower than Windows 3.1 - but looked so much cooler.
ME was the best 9x branch, as long as you disabled System Restore and a few other tweaks. Once you did that, and assuming you had no need for true DOS mode, it was superior to 98 SE and I used it for many years prior to XP.
But how could anyone not have a need for true DOS... Windows games at that time were so much worse than DOS games. And saying you had a PC and didn't use it for games is like completely missing the point of PCs. Well, one of the two points anyway, and the other is not much spoken about publicly.
What I (and many othes) want most from Cortana is to use "her" to dictate text into arbitrary text fields. There's the built-in Windows speech recognition for this, but the app seems not to have received any updates since Win 7 and even with training performs far worse than Cortana running on a low end Lumia.
Cortana probably doesn't run on that Lumia at all. Recent voice-recognition uses computers far more powerful than your phone or PC. I wouldn't want to pass PC voice-recognition to the cloud, since that would expose sensitive data.
A lot of people aren't using Cortana because they feel as though it gives Microsoft the ability to constantly listen in on anything happening. I highly doubt Microsoft has any interest in picking apart an audio stream from someone's home (maybe a business might be a target if there's value in getting away with industrial espionage, but that's a whole other fantasy land we don't need to dive into) but any moves to offer more incentives to use Cortana might be viewed as suspiciously creepy of Microsoft.
I read through these comments and thought, "What are all these young puppies complaining about with ME?" Back in the day Real Men ran their putters on DOS with maybe Carousel for pre-emptive multi-tasking all in 64k unless your were lucky enough to have page file swapping and then maybe you had access to 16MB slowly. GUI? - you're kidding! Want a little color, try 64k resolution and write your own batch files to add a little imagery to your text display. And, we thought we had the world by its tail since we had never seen anything as cool before. Yea, ME wasn't so great, but it was better than what preceded it. Now, Win 10 IP14295 used on a desktop with a kybg and mouse is simply a great operating system - anecdotally, it has never crashed even a single time on me. So, finally, smile when you remember going through things like ME - they got us to where we are now. BTW, do have a nice day. :-)
Do we really need to play one-upmanship type games with one another in the comments boxes to compare who used an older computer or operating system? There's nothing wrong with someone having been born a few years later or only bothering with a computer a few years after someone else did. I don't run around constantly bragging about my VIC-20 with it's 4 kilobytes of RAM in an attempt to invalidate the personal experiences of others or spoil their reminiscing about the past. It'd make me look like an old, grumpy crone to say, "Back in the day more Realer People had 4 kilobytes of RAM and dreamed of one day saving enough from their part time job summer waitress job to buy a CoCo 3 so they could display colors!"
VIC-20 only had 3.5K RAM in its basic configuration, although you could upgrade it to 16K. I guess 3.5 rounds to 4 though. You could even get permanent storage, although only the tape drives were affordable (£45 in 1980/1981)! The ROM cartidges were nice, and it did have colour and possibly "sprites".
W10 is quite impressive in weaker and older systems. I have good and bad experience with W10 in two old netbooks which performs better than Windows 7 and the other just lacking a graphics driver.
It is not quite perfect with HP SFF systems with the school I work for. It freezes randomly and can't figure out why. I've heard some advice to update the firmware of DVD drive.
I just wished for the new edition to have a local child account which simply doesn't need a Microsoft account for family safety and is available in Windows 8/8.1
They never called it the Anniversary edition. It's just the Anniversary update to Windows 10. It's still just Windows 10, they've just dropped the concept of service packs.
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Crono - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
Windows 10 "Anniversary Edition"... is that anything like Millennium Edition? :oJoeyJoJo123 - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
Now with 100% more BOTNET!p1esk - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
You're quite old if you remember Millennium Edition :-)Impulses - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
No, everyone's paranoia and memes have kept ME alive in the shared net consciousness... Only superseded by the Vista QQs.Samus - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Frankly, I'm surprised as everyone else that Microsoft decided to make an "x Edition" after what was Millennium Edition. Is Satya Nadella that young to not remember?close - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Looks like a marketing strategy hoping that "Anniversary Edition" will make people think it's special somehow. Like the "Game of the year gold edition".Mr Perfect - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Oh, I dunno. Remember Windows 98 Second Edition? That was a pretty good "x Edition". Or at least it was better then plain 98 for me.To old?
Alexvrb - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
95 OSR2! Which one could refer to as "Detroit Edition".BurntMyBacon - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Impulses: "No, everyone's paranoia and memes have kept ME alive in the shared net consciousness... Only superseded by the Vista QQs."Don't be fooled. Vista at launch was better than ME at its finest. There are some tweaks like disabling System Restore that can bring it within spitting distance, but an untweaked launch day Vista still gave pretty much everyone I've interacted with on the subject less trouble. Vista post-SP2 (Service pack after Win7 launch) can even be considered competent on many systems. This status I wouldn't bestow upon any Windows ME machines.
Note: Windows ME != Windows 2000.
Disclamer: The number of people's computers I build and work on is large (and probably statistically significant) for a single person's sample size, BUT "Anecdotal evidence is Anecdotal" and "Your milage may vary".
Denithor - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Yeah, for my anecdotal input, I'll just say I had I guess the only PC with ME that didn't crash. Ever. Had to be dragged into XP. LOLbeardenps - Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - link
Yeah, it ran AOL pretty well for you, huh .....beginner99 - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Anyone using it for more than 5 minutes will remember it because it will have crashed at least 3 times in these 5 minutes...BurntMyBacon - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
@beginner99: "Anyone using it for more than 5 minutes will remember it because it will have crashed at least 3 times in these 5 minutes..."You luck B"leep".
1) Your computer could boot Windows ME at least 3 times in 5 minutes?
2) and it only crashed 3 times.
HrD - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
I remember Windows95 even, as that was the OS of my first PC. I'm 25 now and I feel old because of your comment :)darkfalz - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
I remember buying a boxed Windows 95 for my 486 shortly after release at a big software market that obviously don't exist anymore thanks to the Internet. I was probably about 14.Unfortunately it had no accelerated drivers for my Trident VLB video card and as a result was in many ways slower than Windows 3.1 - but looked so much cooler.
BurntMyBacon - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
@HrD: "I remember Windows95 even, as that was the OS of my first PC. I'm 25 now and I feel old because of your comment :)"You are old enough to have graduated college with 2 degrees by now. Somethin wrong with that?
Klug4Pres - Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - link
CP/M FTWdarkfalz - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
ME was the best 9x branch, as long as you disabled System Restore and a few other tweaks. Once you did that, and assuming you had no need for true DOS mode, it was superior to 98 SE and I used it for many years prior to XP.Visual - Friday, April 1, 2016 - link
But how could anyone not have a need for true DOS... Windows games at that time were so much worse than DOS games.And saying you had a PC and didn't use it for games is like completely missing the point of PCs. Well, one of the two points anyway, and the other is not much spoken about publicly.
Cliff34 - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
Wow. Windows ME. :o). That's a long time ago...almost the days before the Internet...Jon Tseng - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Anniversary of what??Arnulf - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
One year anniversary of W10 entering open beta testing stage.TristanSDX - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
Let they call it Gold Edition. Everyone want to have gold for free.zodiacfml - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Rose Gold... Rose Gold.MrSpadge - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
What I (and many othes) want most from Cortana is to use "her" to dictate text into arbitrary text fields. There's the built-in Windows speech recognition for this, but the app seems not to have received any updates since Win 7 and even with training performs far worse than Cortana running on a low end Lumia.JeffFlanagan - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
Cortana probably doesn't run on that Lumia at all. Recent voice-recognition uses computers far more powerful than your phone or PC. I wouldn't want to pass PC voice-recognition to the cloud, since that would expose sensitive data.RobATiOyP - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
Come on now.. don't bash(1) windows!boozed - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
"Someone much more philosophical than myself once said 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet'."Someone much less philosophical once said "same s*** different smell", and I suspect they were closer to the truth.
Also, to speakers of The Queen's, "RS" can be pronounced as "arse." We're easy to please.
Renagade - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
That is quit possibility the funniest comment I've read here. Thank you BoozedValantar - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
Next year: Windows 10 GOTY EditionImpulses - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - link
Shouldn't it be OSOTY? Can't wait for the Developer's Cut myself, with cameos from Gates and Ballmer...Arnulf - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Well, I hope all this crap can be turned off.Donkey2008 - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”...or "You can keep putting lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig".
BrokenCrayons - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
A lot of people aren't using Cortana because they feel as though it gives Microsoft the ability to constantly listen in on anything happening. I highly doubt Microsoft has any interest in picking apart an audio stream from someone's home (maybe a business might be a target if there's value in getting away with industrial espionage, but that's a whole other fantasy land we don't need to dive into) but any moves to offer more incentives to use Cortana might be viewed as suspiciously creepy of Microsoft.GT69 - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
I read through these comments and thought, "What are all these young puppies complaining about with ME?" Back in the day Real Men ran their putters on DOS with maybe Carousel for pre-emptive multi-tasking all in 64k unless your were lucky enough to have page file swapping and then maybe you had access to 16MB slowly. GUI? - you're kidding! Want a little color, try 64k resolution and write your own batch files to add a little imagery to your text display. And, we thought we had the world by its tail since we had never seen anything as cool before. Yea, ME wasn't so great, but it was better than what preceded it. Now, Win 10 IP14295 used on a desktop with a kybg and mouse is simply a great operating system - anecdotally, it has never crashed even a single time on me. So, finally, smile when you remember going through things like ME - they got us to where we are now. BTW, do have a nice day. :-)BrokenCrayons - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
Do we really need to play one-upmanship type games with one another in the comments boxes to compare who used an older computer or operating system? There's nothing wrong with someone having been born a few years later or only bothering with a computer a few years after someone else did. I don't run around constantly bragging about my VIC-20 with it's 4 kilobytes of RAM in an attempt to invalidate the personal experiences of others or spoil their reminiscing about the past. It'd make me look like an old, grumpy crone to say, "Back in the day more Realer People had 4 kilobytes of RAM and dreamed of one day saving enough from their part time job summer waitress job to buy a CoCo 3 so they could display colors!"Donkey2008 - Friday, April 1, 2016 - link
I finished Smurf Rescue on Colecovision. Does that make me better than anyone?BrokenCrayons - Monday, April 4, 2016 - link
It can't be debated that it makes you better than everyone.Klug4Pres - Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - link
VIC-20 only had 3.5K RAM in its basic configuration, although you could upgrade it to 16K. I guess 3.5 rounds to 4 though. You could even get permanent storage, although only the tape drives were affordable (£45 in 1980/1981)! The ROM cartidges were nice, and it did have colour and possibly "sprites".javishd - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
I wish that laptop was real, they have been using it in their mock-ups for a while now.zodiacfml - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
W10 is quite impressive in weaker and older systems. I have good and bad experience with W10 in two old netbooks which performs better than Windows 7 and the other just lacking a graphics driver.It is not quite perfect with HP SFF systems with the school I work for. It freezes randomly and can't figure out why. I've heard some advice to update the firmware of DVD drive.
I just wished for the new edition to have a local child account which simply doesn't need a Microsoft account for family safety and is available in Windows 8/8.1
Oxford Guy - Thursday, March 31, 2016 - link
No, they ran UNIX.ThomasDahl - Friday, April 1, 2016 - link
Does anyone actually use Cortana? I have never done it and I never notice anyone using it.If only MS had used those resources to create a better OS instead...
SeanJ76 - Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - link
@Windows 10 and no Sli yet!!! I wonder how many years it will take Nvidia to fix this MS mess!JamesU - Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - link
They never called it the Anniversary edition. It's just the Anniversary update to Windows 10. It's still just Windows 10, they've just dropped the concept of service packs.