Slasher
I went from Win 95 to Windows ME without any trouble (apart from discovering during the installation that my floppy drive was dead !)
As mentioned above, bootup is quicker, and compared to Win 95, is more stable. Win ME has an installation option to 'save' your old operating system. - This way, if it all goes t*ts up, you can rollback to Win 98.
As an aside, it really does wind me up the speed at which Microsoft is changing versions of Windows and MS Office at the moment. In the space of about 2 years, we have gone from Win 98 to Win ME / Win 2000 to Win XP. It's all marketing and bug-fixes, rather than essential changes.
MS have so much power over the software houses writing the applications, that they can ensure they write their applications for the latest flavour of Windoze, thus forcing everyone to upgrade.
I'm all for progress, but changing Operating systems is always risky, and we shouldn't be dictated into doing it every time MS designs a great new colour scheme for packaging it in...
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