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With the original release, Microsoft had also been side-eyeing Apple’s success with the App Store and tried to emulate it by introducing the Windows Store and Universal Windows (UWP) apps that were - and still are - a nightmare for everyone involved. It was so bad that Microsoft had to patch in the original taskbar and Start button with Windows 8.1, which helped things to some extent, but it was too late. Unfortunately, it was completely unintuitive for experienced and novice desktop PC users, turning off longtime Windows fans immediately. It tried to make the Windows desktop a better fit for the emerging tablet scene, and it succeeded to some extent, with its tile design and gesture controls making it enjoyable to use on a tablet. Tablets and smartphones were taking over the world and the PC was dying, so Windows needed to be more compatible with tablets. Windows 8 feels like Microsoft hit the panic button in its developer offices. Windows ME was a mess, and from our perspective, is the worst version of Windows ever released. But none of that makes much of a difference if the core OS is barely functional. It tried to do a few innovative things, like introducing automatic security updates, folder compression with native ZIP support, and a new Help and Support system to make it easier to fix things. There are myriad reports of its crashing during installation and setup, and much-touted features like System Restore often didn’t work properly in protecting affected systems. It is known for how frequent it would crash, and not just once you had it up and running.

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Windows ME was plagued by poor driver support and incredibly bad stability issues. This made it the worst of both worlds, as it couldn’t benefit from the improvements found in the Windows NT kernel, which formed the base of Windows XP, but also didn’t provide proper DOS functionality either.

Windows Millennium Edition was the last Windows OS based on MS-DOS, but it restricted access to DOS to improve boot times.

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