Windows 9x/Me
Windows 9x comprises Windows 95 (and the various "OS-R" updates to Windows 95, which were provided only via PC makers), Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and of course the unfairly maligned Windows Millennium Edition (Me). All of these releases, except for Windows Me, actually predate the SuperSite, interestingly. But here's all the content I've created here for those Windows versions.
more The Windows 8 Start screen is just the latest in a long line of Windows user interfaces, some evolutionary, some revolutionary. But understood in retrospect, this new UI makes plenty of sense, and it certainly has precedent in Windows UIs past.
more With today marking the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Windows, I'm taking a stroll down memory lane and looking back at the early years and my complicated relationship with Microsoft's now-dominant OS.
more Originally, I had planned to provide "Look At Me, Digital Photography" as the second installment in this series on new features in Windows Me, but a bizarre problem requiring the use of System Restore...
more Windows Me is Microsoft's final operating system in the 16/32-bit Windows 9x family, following Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE. As such, users expect it to perform in a similar manner to its ...
more On Friday, September 8, 2000, I sat down with Brian Livingston at Boston's Union Oyster House,
the longest continually operating restaurant in America, to discuss Windows Millennium Edition
(Windows M...
more Windows Millennium Edition--or Windows Me (as in the dreadful, "get to know Me" tagline)--is a lame duck technologically, but it offers enough reliability improvements and new features for me to recommend it heartily to most Windows 9x users. And for those people that eagerly turned to Windows 2000, only to get burned, Windows Me might be just what the doctor ordered.
more "[Microsoft needs to] get over NT. Microsoft has been talking up Windows NT so much for the past few years that they're hovering at the point of no return. Here's a news flash, Microsoft: People love ...
more So if you're among the crowd of millions of consumers that will get Windows Me, and you probably are, you may be wondering what it is that you're going to get when Microsoft finally ships that OS. Wonder no more: Here's the first look at the contents of the final Windows Me CD-ROM.
more With primary goals of simplicity and ease-of-use, it's no surprise that Windows Millennium Edition ("Windows Me") is designed to make things obvious for new users from the get-go. Microsoft ha...
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