I'm not the only one that had issues with Windows Millennium Edition. Twenty years ago, it started selling to people in stores. It was similar to Windows 95 and 98, but was not stable on certain computers. I've heard that it can do well pending the computer in question and other times being dreadful. Lack of real DOS compatible material and constant lock ups made it an even bigger nightmare when my family had one from late 2000 through 2004.
I got to experience some good gaming on it with stuff I had on 95 and some more complex games. Enjoyed a bit more of Doom II, played my first Need for Speed game with High Stakes. Got into Novalogic games like Comanche Gold. My first experience with Half Life was on ME. Internet wise, it felt new with experiencing gaming websites, movie related sties. I felt that same experience many had way back in the mid-90s. My own father was into PC gaming a little bit with Delta Force and a few sports games. He got deeply into Madden 2003 and 04 along with Deer Hunt and Championship Bass.
But with the good stuff comes the negatives. We went through two monitors before getting an XP laptop in 04 and an XP computer the next year. The image would slide down and it would leave you with a black screen. Floppy drives were still around in 2000, and that bit the dust rather early. Memory issues were a constant at that time. Seemed every week it needed to be defragmented. A lot of blue screen or red screen of deaths. It was not stable.
Unfortunate for Millennium Edition to be that bad because it was a bit better compared to 95 and the features like Movie Maker was very nice. You're better off getting 95 or 98. Other than Vista, this is not how you treat your fanbase if you're Microsoft
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