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Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] Lee@retrolemmy.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you're mixing up ME and 2000. ME (consumer) came after 98 (consumer) and 2000 (business) was the NT (business) version. I ran 2000 for a few years. Huge step up from 98/ME in stability and less eye candy bloat than XP.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, I'm not.

98, 98se, and ME are all 9x, pre NT.

Windows 2000 was NT, but it was server and business focused, so I left it out as most people did not run 2000 on their personal computers. XP was the first consumer targeting Windows with NT, and it was a huge step up in security and stability over 9x, despite how awful it was.

I'm not praising XP, I'm just refuting that 98 was great. It was hot garbage, and you could run a very secure and stable Linux distro back then, we stuck with windows back then because Wine wasn't mature (Proton/bottles didn't exist), the hardware wasn't good enough for good emulation, and we needed binary compatibility because we wanted the windows exclusives. We never used Windows 98 because it was a good OS, we used it because it came with every computer you bought and all the software you wanted ran on it.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You literally wrote 2000 in the first line.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

You're right, I'm sorry. That was a mistake.