The Register (UK) has a brief look at Windows ME that highlights some of the inane bugs in ME as well as the typical MS response — customers aren’t supposed to try that. Consider what happens if you are silly enough to think that Microsoft’s Personal Web Server will install properly on Windows ME:
Microsoft’s Personal Web Server (PWS) is one of the applications that falls foul of Windows Me. PWS tries to overwrite some of the core system files and when it doesn’t instead of aborting the installation, it creates several nasty registry errors.
Microsoft responds with the obvious, once again, stating that this technology is more appropriate for business and/or corporate users, and since Windows Me was designed solely for the home user, PWS is not supported by Windows Me. Which leads to it not being able to work in Windows Me.
But it screwing your registry does seem a bit hard, even so. Particularly if you didn’t have a backup. You did have a backup, didn’t you?
Morons. Okay, if it’s not supposed to be used by home users, why the hell did they call it the Personal Web Server? Maybe what they really should say is they never meant Windows to be used in the home — people with home PCs should install Linux or buy Macs!