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Sep 10, 2026
EliHOST
There was the Windows 95 hype cycle.
EliHOST
There was the Windows ME hype cycle.
EliHOST
That didn't last very long.
EliHOST
It was a really shitty operating system.
Dave GriffithHOST
And we had talked, you and I had talked about wanting to talk about different market positions, right? Like different areas that an integrator or all of those retrofits is almost certainly an area that needs more people to go work on.
Dave GriffithHOST
But to your point, Vlad, It is one of those that you're like, I need to make this one change because this thing is obsolete, or I've got a screen dying, or I have a server that is dying and I can't continue to go run Windows ME on my system in order to keep it up and running.
Dave GriffithHOST
And there are a thousand other things that come.
Dave GriffithHOST
And those first couple of times that you go through an upgrade path, It's a learning lesson, and it's a learning lesson for everyone.
Marvin BeeHOST
And then like two or three months later, the software vendor went to their office to go do an update and do some stuff.
Marvin BeeHOST
And I think they had purchased Windows M E and didn't have the network set up properly.
Marvin BeeHOST
And they were trying to, you know, this was a law firm trying to do their stuff.
Marvin BeeHOST
And, and, uh, the, the consultant looked and they said, Marvin did this.
Dave GravelineHOST
Wow.
Chris GravelineHOST
And this week in 2000, Microsoft released Windows Me, or Millennium Edition.
Chris GravelineHOST
It was the successor and last version of the Windows 9X series that began with the enormously popular Windows 95.
Chris GravelineHOST
It was also described as quite possibly the most under-hyped version of Windows ever created.
Chris GravelineHOST
And considering some of the opinions people had about Windows Me, underhyped might have been the safest marketing strategy.
Chris GravelineHOST
Still, it marked the end of the Windows 9X era and helped pave the way for what came next.
Chris GravelineHOST
And perhaps, most importantly, it made Windows XP look even better.
Michael MoynihanHOST
And they had pulled from all over the country.
Michael MoynihanHOST
And like one was running Windows Me and the other one was running Windows 95 and then Windows 2000 and XP.
Michael MoynihanHOST
They had my
Matt WelchHOST
computer.
Dave GinsburgPANELIST
XP.
Dave GinsburgPANELIST
Windows ME as well.
Dave GinsburgPANELIST
Windows ME is another one.
Dave GinsburgPANELIST
Yeah.
Dave GinsburgPANELIST
Vista and ME both belong in the trash bin.
Yvonne CrombieCORRESPONDENT
An old wooden house that was once a part of a dairy farm in the early 1900s has been collapsing slowly for decades.
Yvonne CrombieCORRESPONDENT
But when it was still mostly upright 30 years ago, a Microsoft employee visited Juneau, took a photo of the cabin, and it became a background option for Windows ME in 2000.
Yvonne CrombieCORRESPONDENT
That same year, a young man named Roy Bradley was entering college in Scotland, and on his first computer, the image stood out to him.
Yvonne CrombieCORRESPONDENT
A dilapidated, moss-covered wood house being consumed by trees, a misty hillside in the background.
Leo DionHOST
So yeah.
Saleem AbdulrasoolGUEST
And Microsoft actually did evolve that through Windows 98 and Windows ME as well.
Saleem AbdulrasoolGUEST
The, there was a separate Perl piece of work that was going on.
Saleem AbdulrasoolGUEST
So if you could think back now around the same time with Windows 95, right? Microsoft had just released Windows 95.
Saleem AbdulrasoolGUEST
You have applications and you have your data and that's all you need to think about.
Saleem AbdulrasoolGUEST
When they did this, because you were building up these more modern applications, they wanted to change the look and feel of these applications.
Saleem AbdulrasoolGUEST
And so they basically repurposed what they'd built window around the Windows ME right after Windows ME or around Windows ME with XAML, right? XAML basically was this idea of building out a declarative UI.
Saleem AbdulrasoolGUEST
Shocking.