WinME required a 50 gallon drum of Quaaludes! :) I never had it install, work, or "plug and play" properly. It failed spectacularly during beta (wouldn't even install) and wasn't much better after release. Multiple devices (lists of the same one), BSoD, BkSoD, system freezes; it sucked. It remained on my systems for about 1 day before begrudgingly moving to Windows 2000 Pro (begrudgingly because many games at that time did not run under it). Now, I consider Win2000 Pro the best Microsoft OS yet. And they are going to pull support for it soon (stupidly, since there are probably tens of millions of users of Win2000). I think that software developers have to draw the line on the OSes supported. Otherwise, they'd have to support MSDOS 1.0-6.0, WFW, Win3.1/3.0, BeOS, AmigaOS, C64-OS (whatever that was called), NeXT, and so forth and so on. Win98 and MacOS 9.x are good bottom lines.