2002 – 2006retired
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“Built for classrooms, shaped like a friendly toaster, gone but never graded down”
“The last of the DOS-blooded Windows, gone before its blue screens could fully be forgiven.”
Windows Me, short for Millennium Edition, was Microsoft's operating system for home PC users, released to manufacturing on June 19, 2000 and to retail that September. It carried Internet Explorer 5.5, Windows Media Player 7, DirectX 7, and the new Windows Movie Maker, which offered easy consumer video editing. It was also the last MS-DOS-based Windows version, the final heir of the Windows 9x line that so many home u
Its successor arrived quickly: the NT-based Windows XP launched on October 25, 2001 and took over as Microsoft's main operating system for home users, and Windows Me was discontinued in 2006. Everything after it moved to the NT kernel, ending the MS-DOS era entirely. It was the last of its kind, and the home computing world never quite sounded the same.
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“Built for classrooms, shaped like a friendly toaster, gone but never graded down”
“The colorful laptop with a handle, gone but still opening like a lunchbox in our hearts”
“White plastic, big heart: the people's Mac went home smiling.”