What is Windows ME?

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Answer: Windows Me (Millennium edition) was the successor to Windows 98 and, just like Windows 98, was targeted specifically at home PC users. It included internet Explorer 5.5, Windows Media Player 7, and the new Windows Movie Maker software, which provided basic video editing and was designed to be easy to use for home users. Microsoft also updated the graphical user interface, the shell features and Windows Explorer in Windows Me with some of those first introduced in Windows 2000, which had been released as a business oriented operating system seven months earlier. Windows Me could be upgraded to Internet Explorer 6 SP1, but not to SP2; Internet Explorer 7 or Windows Media Player 9 Series. Microsoft ".NET Framework" up to and including version 2.0 was supported; however versions 2.0 SP1, 3.x, and greater were not. Windows Me was a continuation of the Windows 9x series, but with access to real mode MS-DOS restricted, in order to speed up system boot time. This was one of the most publicized changes in Windows Me, because applications that needed real mode DOS to run, such as older disk utilities, did not run under Windows Me. 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 25 October 2001.