me or 98

[rip]

i have both and i would like to hear what users think of the two and which they prefer?

[oleblue73]

98 all the way. ME has more bugs than the state of Florida.

[rip]

ty in florida cool i'm in new smyrna.

[andyms18a]

if your new to computers and dont have windows xp then stick with 98 as me can be a pain to get right

[rip]

98 it is.

[HAL9000]

I still don't understand all the hatred for WinME.... my second machine has had WinME on it since June of 2000 and never glitched running 24/7. Same with my bench machine at work. I have found it to be every bit as reliable as 98, but it boots twice as fast as 98 ever did, not to mention having better driver support.

[RJ]

98 all the way. ME has more bugs than the state of Florida

Windows 98 has more bugs than the state of Florida, too.
Don't think it's a perfect OS, coz it's not.

So I say go with WinME. It's not very different from Win98 but has alot of bugs fixed, some new features, and more modern.

RJ

[raftero]

winME

[not important]

I used ME for over 2 years and it was no worse than 98. The System Restore feature was a big plus for me.

[rip]

sounds to me like its 50/50

[largosama]

For me, it booted up faster than 98 but it still theoritically needed to "boot-up" even after landing on the desktop, because after I clicked on the start button, I went to get a glass of water and it seemed to have.... froze.... (I liked the system restore feature though.) Then the computer got an XP because of the "obtain dns automatically" feature in setting up our cable modem.

[David14259]

Here's a vote for 98. I've personally never used WinME but everyone that I know that has used it hates it. They say it very unstable.

[sdkfz]

I upgraded a machine of mine from ME to 98......

Of the two I'll vote fo 98

I have used DOS 5 and up, Win 3.1/11/95/98/ME and now XP on my personal machines. My favorites would be 3.1 (Nostalgia of course, but that 40 mhz AMD 386 DX clone kicked some serious....) 98 and XP.

I have had so many fewer issues with XP than all of the rest. My only issues have been older DOS games (but then the PC runs them too fast anyway) and some VPN software from work that causes glitches, and I am stuck with that. (It is wierd I can access MS Access DB's on one drive but not the other, I own both of the DB's, IT tried and failed to figure it out...)

[HAL9000]

Originally posted by David14259 Here's a vote for 98. I've personally never used WinME but everyone that I know that has used it hates it. They say it very unstable.

Well... I've used and abused it (WinME) and have never found it to be any less stable than 98.

[Doobie]

I vote for WinMe... I have never had a problem that i wouldnt of had on Win98... I like that it boots up way faster than 98..

[Nuclear Krusader]

Seems like ME is like penicillin: to some it helps, to others it kills.

Me, I wouldn't touch it even with a 10 ft pole, after the stories I've heard and the problems I've witnessed.

[imbest123]

98

[JTH]

I'm for ME.

It gets WAY more abuse than it deserves. In fact I'm typing this very post on my ME machine (my other is XP). I've used it for nearly three years now and although there have been crashes (no less than Windows 98 and far less than commonly reported), it's more modern, has a faster boot time, improved help and support, better games, can handle 30gb.+ H/D's and has an excellent problem-solver and potential headache-reliever in System Restore.

So all in all, ME gets my vote. Don't listen to the criticisms of it. In this fast-moving world of software, can you really afford to go for one O/S when you have a two-years newer O/S at your disposal?

JTH

[andyms18a]

the problam with windows me is it was released to quick only 75% of the bugs in the code wear removed as oposed to 98 witch had 94% and xp 96% but if you get a late ish cd and do some heavy updates then its a very good operating system but the first run of cds wear a nightmair to configer
ps (the bug % quote is from a microsoft tec at ms hq i have spoken to)

[eldon]

I have used both and I perfer 98,however I didnt see any big difference between the 2,although 98 seemed a little more stable of the 2.

[HAL9000]

Originally posted by andyms18a the problam with windows me is it was released to quick only 75% of the bugs in the code wear removed as oposed to 98 witch had 94% and xp 96% but if you get a late ish cd and do some heavy updates then its a very good operating system but the first run of cds wear a nightmair to configer ps (the bug % quote is from a microsoft tec at ms hq i have spoken to)

Personally... no offense... I have to say bull..... my second machine has ME on it and has had it since a month BEFORE its official release.... so it's as an original of a release as you can get and I've never had any issues with it.

[andyms18a]

i wood say your lucky at work we hade thousands of laptops with new me operating systoms with problams but as time moved on and the updates came out problams got lese and lese

[HAL9000]

Hardly lucky... this machine had ME on it until I upgraded it to XP last year... my bench machine has ME on it running 24/7 as well. Working in the biz... I have put out a whack load of ME machines, all of them running great with one exception.... a few systems running AMD on VIA... the AMD's running on SiS, AMD, or nForce are all running great as well.

[andyms18a]

it may just have bean the versions shiped to compaq then but the info i got was from a microsoft tec we spoke to in regardds
to the problams we ware haveing. but as you know some times the ms tec dont know thair right hand from thair left.
and i do aggre a fuly updated version of win me is better than 98 but like a lot of other enginears i allways advise 98 over me
and xp over any thing but the best part of this forum system is we all have our opinions and the freedom to express them with no one geting out of hand thanks to the moderators and the good work done by all the posters on this site new and old so keep up the good work every one.