Quote Originally Posted by Jolt View Post
If you think Vista is bad, you must not have had the misfortune to have a computer that came with Windows ME--that one created an even stronger vacuum! My computer in college came with that OS and it was always crashing.
I had to support my mom's computers on Windows ME for quite a few years (she is an independent contractor). The only reason I didn't switch the OS is because I could fix most things through DOS at that time, and Windows ME sucked so much that no one bothered to write computer viruses for it (it was that different from the other operating systems.) So ME was kind of useful in its own way.

Now she's moved on to a Mac, hurrah! Now I can fix things in Unix if necessary... and remotely... and best of all I never had to deal with Vista / loss of DOS (My first OS was DOS 1.1, truly! But of course I've dealt with many OSes since then... VAX, Unix, AS/400... I switched over to the Mac platform for OSX / Unix).