Windows Me shipped on time; nothing else about it did
Windows Millennium Edition shipped to instant notoriety for crashes and driver conflicts
The market's verdict: -5.9% on MSFT in the week after.
What actually happened
Windows Me reached stores on September 14, 2000, the last Windows built on DOS foundations. It froze, crashed and clashed with drivers so dependably that PC World ranked it fourth on its worst tech products of all time list, where readers had already renamed it the Mistake Edition. Its flagship feature, System Restore, arrived with bugs of its own, which is a very Windows Me sentence. Microsoft pulled it from shelves thirteen months later, the day Windows XP shipped. Support ended in 2006. The nickname is still working.
This one is officially acknowledged.
They did it more than once
ME made people scared to upgrade; Windows 8 made them scared to click.
Links
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Context
- Wikipedia (wikipedia)
↳ caused by Windows Millennium Edition
Timeline
- Sep 14, 2000 Stood by it Microsoft stood by it.