The latest version of Windows is "Windows
Millennium Edition", short "Windows
ME",
which will replace Windows98
and its Second Edition (SE).
I have installed it to have a first look at the changes, keeping
in mind that Microsoft is positioning
Windows ME for Home-Users and Windows2000 for business
users.
Nov.2001: Microsoft has released Windows XP Home to replace
Windows ME.
Each time Microsoft releases a new
version of Windows, it grows in size and requires more
disk-capacity for installation. To avoid to prompt for the
Windows ME CD-ROM later during
changes of the configuration, the Windows ME setup copies 151 Mbytes of SETUP (CAB)-files
to the harddisk (which could be moved
to a different disk or delete if you are short on disk-capacity
on the
C-drive).
Each time Microsoft released in the past a new version of
Windows, they included some utilities,
which you had to purchase separately from a different vendor for
the previous versions of
Windows, and with Windows ME Microsoft has implemented in the
Windows Explorer support for "Compressed
Folders" / ZIP-files
Windows95/98:
A first obvious
difference:
Win95/98: Selecting "Network
Neighborhood" from the
desktop will display the list of computers in your
workgroup.
Windows ME : The desktop-icons are very similar to
Windows2000, there is no "Network Neighborhood"
but a "My Network Places" and to view the list
of
computers , you need to click through to
"Entire Network" and then on your workgroup:
Unlike
Windows95/98, where you access
Dial-Up-Networking via "My
Computer" on
your desktop, you get on Windows ME to
Dial-Up-Networking via the Start-menu:
"Settings" /
"Dial-Up Networking":