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[thealexweb]

Nashy, on 29 January 2012 - 06:21, said:

Any problem you had in Win2K was nothing compared to running Windows ME.

I'm one of the few people that loved Me, I used it for four years, longer than I have any other Windows OS, I never saw most of he horrors that people grumbled about.

[dnast]

As much as I loved Windows 2000 way back when, I'm glad Mozilla is finally moving on. The OS is 12 years old, now. There's no reason to hold the rest of us back.

And I'd like to forget about WinME. It was rare for me to go a full 24 hours without a BSOD, freezing, or needing to reboot for some other reason. I envied those that didn't have any issues with it.

[erpster3]

thealexweb, on 29 January 2012 - 09:02, said:

I'm one of the few people that loved Me, I used it for four years, longer than I have any other Windows OS, I never saw most of he horrors that people grumbled about.

same here, I liked WinME when it came pre-installed on an old HP Pavilion desktop computer after I installed the proper hotfixes and updates on it; otherwise WinME w/out several of the essential patches installed make it look mediocre. Windows ME was really designed for the home user / consumer user, not for business / corporate people.

dnast, on 29 January 2012 - 09:05, said:

As much as I loved Windows 2000 way back when, I'm glad Mozilla is finally moving on. The OS is 12 years old, now. There's no reason to hold the rest of us back.

And I'd like to forget about WinME. It was rare for me to go a full 24 hours without a BSOD, freezing, or needing to reboot for some other reason. I envied those that didn't have any issues with it.

yup, I had a feeling the day would eventually come when Mozilla will end Win2000 support for its Firefox web browser. they had to let go of support for old OSes at some point.

[remixedcat]

what's stupid and fail and all kinda facepalm is my school (at the time) bought new dells with xp on them and wiped it and put windows 2000 on them!

then they wanted new copies of xp put back on those same machines later!

[cork1958]

thealexweb, on 29 January 2012 - 09:02, said:

I'm one of the few people that loved Me, I used it for four years, longer than I have any other Windows OS, I never saw most of he horrors that people grumbled about.

Are we still living in the past or what with that Netscape avatar?
Nice combinatin of a couple of the worst inventions ever. That being Windows Me and Netscape!! Both were crash masters from hell!!

Unfortunately,
Firefox has already waited to long to do this and has lost a lot of users, darn it!

[The_Decryptor]

cork1958, on 08 February 2012 - 05:54, said:

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Unfortunately,
Firefox has already waited to long to do this and has lost a lot of users, darn it!

So there were people out there that didn't use Firefox because it supported Windows 2000?

Mozilla switched from Visual C 2008 to Visual C 2010, as a result they now build against the 2010 C Runtime Library vs. the 2008 C Runtime Library. The only thing stopping the 2010 version from running on 2K (and early XP systems) is the lack of a couple of security APIs (literally 2, EncodePointer and DecodePointer). It's not like Firefox will become sentient and start doing the laundry by using the 2010 library, it's being read into too much.

[Nashy]

thealexweb, on 29 January 2012 - 09:02, said:

I'm one of the few people that loved Me, I used it for four years, longer than I have any other Windows OS, I never saw most of he horrors that people grumbled about.

You must be the calmest person on the planet. I commend you for your achievement. Does MS know about how long you ran it? It has to be a record worthy of medals and money.

You're very lucky, I don't know how you didn't have issues. It really was the worst, garbage OS I have ever, ever had the displeasure of installing. Running Vista with non-compatible drivers would give a better experience.

[DJGM]

cork1958, on 08 February 2012 - 05:54, said:

Are we still living in the past or what with that Netscape avatar?
Nice combinatin of a couple of the worst inventions ever. That being Windows Me and Netscape!!

Don't forget, if it weren't for Netscape, there'd be no Firefox, and of course, no SeaMonkey either.

thealexweb, on 29 January 2012 - 09:02, said:

I'm one of the few people that loved Me, I used it for four years, longer than I have any
other Windows OS, I never saw most of he horrors that people grumbled about.

While Windows ME was perhaps the buggiest and most unstable version of Windows ever made, it is true there were
a minority of Windows ME users that hadencountered little or no problems with it whatsover. It seems you were one
of the lucky minority. My experience with it: First few months were OK, after that BSODs were a daily occurance!
Windows 2000 was a godsend, like a breath of frsh air on my PC of the time.

Meanwhile, I have to agree with comments that running an obsolete OS that's no longer supported is a bad idea,
especially online ... It's like skinny dipping in the Florida Everglades, or standing in the middle of a rugby pitch
during a match. It's like urinating on an electrical fence, or going to Iran wearing a Salman Rushdie t-shirt.

Absolutely not recommended eitherway!

[thealexweb]

cork1958, on 08 February 2012 - 05:54, said:

Are we still living in the past or what with that Netscape avatar?
Nice combinatin of a couple of the worst inventions ever. That being Windows Me and Netscape!! Both were crash masters from hell!!

Unfortunately,
Firefox has already waited to long to do this and has lost a lot of users, darn it!

I don't use Firefox anymore so I'm not sure why I still have my avatar as it is xD I'll get round to changing it at some point

[remixedcat]

people at school called it netscrape buttigator... LOLOLOLOL

[torrentthief]

lets hope they ditch support for XP within 2yrs, would save alot of programmers that could work on adding more functionality.

[Heartripper]

Mike Frett, on 28 January 2012 - 09:36, said:

So what if it's unsupported. When your warrantee runs out on your car, do you stop using it because it's unsupported?. Tired of people feeding this crap to the users, if something is working just fine and you like it, then you should use it no matter what fear mongers say.

There are Hospitals that still use DOS. You know why? It's not because it's supported or unsupported; they use it because it's working just fine. No reason whatsoever to spend money on garbage you don't need just because Mr. Tech Know-it-all say's you do.

If everyone thought just like you we'd have fire, wheel and a few more things invented

[Pink Floyd]

Windows what?

[remixedcat]

Pink Floyd, on 08 February 2012 - 22:06, said:

Windows what?

Windows why?

[The_Decryptor]

torrentthief, on 08 February 2012 - 21:14, said:

lets hope they ditch support for XP within 2yrs, would save alot of programmers that could work on adding more functionality.

How so? It isn't any extra work to support XP.