Interesting that everyone seems to consider Win ME to be an utter dog. Good old Win 95 OSR2 with all the upgrades works just fine for those of us who only want a little word processing, e-mail and Internet access!
Such is progress - the hard-up Mr Gates has announced that support for earlier versions of Windows such as Win 98, ME, certain NT and 2000 will end much sooner than people ever thought. Planned obsolescence, I guess! I call it greed!!