I'm a bit more 'puter savy than my wife, so when she purchased her Gateway, I helped by listening to the sales person talk about the components. I then told my wife to go ahead and get it since it sounded like a good buy. What I forgot to ask was which OS came with it. I assumed that it would have been Win98se, but WinME was a few weeks in the marketplace and was available for our new 'puter.
I'm totally disgusted by WinMe. Just about every time we go for shut-down, it goes to the blue screen. When online, our browser will occasionally crash and refuse to execute, unless we do a 'puter restart. What is the biggest perks of WinMe? Well, there is a nifty media player hampered with inconsistent performance. There is a built in digital movie editor, which creates MS file only movies (As usual, instead of being an innovator, like apple, MS follows their lead).
I do admit that there are some nice aspects of MinME, but I'd give it some time before I upgrade. It usually takes MS six months to patch the bugs from the initial release, so I'd give it until then to do so. In retrospect, I really wish that our machine came with Win98se (why is there a second edition? to fix the initial bugs).
I do envy the few fortunate people who's machines work smoothly with the ME OS.
- Josh