Passive downloading is a nice option for those with slower dial-up connections. WinMe places a new emphasis on Internet connectivity. Microsoft has chosen to develop Me directly around its latest web browser, Internet Explorer 5.5. IE 5.5 offers much improved performance, faster load times, and expanded compatibility for new HTML standards. Even the MS desktop games get an Internet twist.
Millennium includes expanded multimedia support.
Users can create, edit, and store several movie and sound formats with the new Window's Movie Maker. MM provides several advanced options for digital editing that one would expect only in costly editing packages. For the average user not requiring movie quality video editing, Movie Maker will prove very valuable. After multiple tests on several platforms, it is evident that Millennium offers much improved stability over older Windows 9x. After repeated attempts to crash the system through faulty software, WinMe would not go down.