Windows Me
Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me (marketed with the pronunciation of the pronoun "me"), is an operating system produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was the direct successor to Windows 98, and was released to manufacturing on June 19, 2000, with retail sales beginning on September 14, 2000. It is the third and final product of the Windows 9x family, which is based on the Windows 95 kernel and MS-DOS; while its successor Windows XP is based on the Microsoft's Windows NT kernel instead.

Windows Me was targeted specifically at home PC users, and included Internet Explorer 5.5, Windows Media Player 7, and the new Windows Movie Maker software, which provided basic video editing and was designed to be easy to use for home users. Microsoft also incorporated features first introduced in Windows 2000, which had been released as a business-oriented operating system seven months earlier, into the graphical user interface, shell, and Windows Explorer. Although Windows Me was still ultimately based around MS-DOS like its predecessors, access to real-mode MS-DOS was restricted to decrease system boot time.

Windows Me was initially positively received, but its reception became more negative as time went on, to the point that it was heavily panned by users due to stability issues. Retrospectively, Windows Me is viewed as one of the worst operating systems Microsoft has ever produced. In October 2001, Windows XP was released to the public, having already been under development at the time of Windows Me's release, and popularized most of Me's features, while being far more stable. Extended support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006.
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