Many users of Windows ME or "Millennium Edition", complained about frequent system crashes and freezes. There were lots of problems reported with the system restore also. It would sometimes restore viruses that had been removed by the user and it had a bug that if you created a system restore point after September 2001, it couldn't always find it and would cause System Restore to fail.Many users also complained that Microsoft removed access to real mode DOS and DriveSpace Support for hard disk drives.
Researched at Wikipedia.org:
Windows Me: New and Updated Features
PC World.com ranked Windows ME as the 4th worst technical product ever in their list of the 25 worst:
"# 4 This might be the worst version of Windows ever released--or, at least, since the dark days of Windows 2.0. Windows Millennium Edition (aka Me, or the Mistake Edition) was Microsoft's follow-up to Windows 98 SE for home users. Shortly after Me appeared in late 2000, users reported problems installing it, getting it to run, getting it to work with other hardware or software, and getting it to stop running. Aside from that, Me worked great.
To its credit, Me introduced features later made popular by Windows XP, such as system restore. Unfortunately, it could also restore files you never wanted to see again, like viruses that you'd just deleted. Forget Y2K; this was the real millennium bug."
Retrieved from:
PC World 25 Worst Tech Products Of All Time
Some of the features from ME that we still use in XP and Vista are:
* System Restore function
* A new TCP/IP stack
* Windows Media Player 7 (11 now)
* Internet Explorer 5.5 (7. something, LOL, I use firefox)
* Movie Maker application for recording, editing, publishing, and organizing audio and video content
