It is the last Microsoft operating system which will be based on its DOS technology, now 20 years old. Windows Me comes with the snazzy new Windows Media Player, but you can download that for free from Microsoft. Windows Me does provide a solution to the growing number of home users looking to link several computers to a single Internet connection. Windows Me even includes the ability to do video editing, so all these new capabilities are supported in this latest version of Windows, making the PC a better tool than ever before. To give you a taste of it, Gates is dispatcing a Windows Me tour .
End users can actually kick the tires of the product and take it for a test drive.
I've installed Windows Me on two PCs. It took me almost three hours to get it set up because Windows Me requires so much additional disk space. The initial try failed after about 15 minutes when the installation program informed me that there wasn't enough room on my drive. Experiences with more recent vintage PCs may be less troublesome. This morning, I installed Windows Me on my computer at work in just under one hour.