>>6866249WinMe was about as bad as it could possibly get and still boot, "usually." Coming from Win98SE, it was like migrating from a mature install of WinXP to the initial release of Vista. It's a reasonable parallel, also, in that it _might_ have become better with enough patches and driver updates, etc. in the same way that Vista eventually became reasonably stable ... so long as you keep in mind the time periods each were released.
Anyway. In the end, people who had access to WinNT used that, or went to Win2K. Or stayed on Win98SE (which was one rocking OS for it's time period).
WinMe was the eviscerated "home edition" (sort of) if you imagine the next gen of Win98SE being the equivalent of Win2K "home" compared to Win2K Pro.
The thing was that WinMe never got the patches & driver support that it should have had from the beginning, and Win2K Pro was often able to make direct use of WinNT software & drivers. so, the problems with Win2K were not as apparent and got fixed while WinMe got abandoned.
Rather than think of Win10 problems, think more like a completely unpatched & unsupported Win8, no Win8.1 release, and you sort of get what WinMe was at the time of its release. You had better options to go to, whereas Vista you were just plain fukt and had to wait for Win7 or revert to WinXP ... and, if you never played with it, keep in mind that many people wanted very much 64-bit software running on a 64-bit OS. Meaning, if Vista was too fukt for you to use, your option was WinXP 64-bit, which was its own nightmare.
tl;dr -- WinMe was an abortion. Only Microsoft Bob holds a position below it.
