Interesting to see the usual stories about windows millenium being trotted out.
The only thing really wrong with it was the lack of a proper DOS shell. In many others ways it was far superior to what went before:
USB2 that worked, wireless networking that worked, system restore, the ability to restore missing or damaged files near-automatically
Add to that the enforced absence of windows installation CDs meaning that customers had to use recovery images instead.
In short, all these changes more than halved the number of support calls to our company. In reality Me was a lot more reliable than any of the Win95/98 variants that preceded it. I'm convinced that most of the criticism was simply because it was still a 9X OS - most people had expected a consumer version of NT instead, something that didn't happen until XP. As a result, disappointment - especially as Win2000 was available at the same time. Customers compared it to the NT stability of Win2K, instead of the instability of 95/98, forgetting that playing games in Win2K could be very hit and miss