Windows Me
Windows Me
Windows Me is a hybrid 16/32 bit operating system by Microsoft, which was designed to be a successor for Windows 95-98. Similarly, it was mainly targeted at the consumer/home-user market, and marketed in parallel to the more professionally oriented Windows NT and Windows 2000. Some of the new features in Windows Me included Internet Explorer 5.5, Windows Media Player 7, an updated graphical interface, and a video editing software.
The "Me" in Windows Me is an abbreviation of "Millennium Edition".
One of the most notable changes in Windows Me as compared with its predecessors was that it no longer had so-called "real mode MS-DOS", which was an older operating/address mode of the 8086 architecture. This made Windows Me a few seconds faster at boot time, however it also meant that it no longer natively supported some old MS-DOS applications.
Windows Me had a rather short lifespan, because only a year after its release, the much more stable and advanced NT-based Windows XP came out and made it effectively obsolete.
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