Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Compared with other releases of Windows , Windows Me had a short shelf-life of just over a year ; it was soon replaced by the Windows NT-based Windows XP , which was launched on October 25 , 2001 .
Simplified: Windows ME is the Millennium Edition of the Microsoft Windows operating system . Windows Me is based on Windows 98 .