windows ME

Windows Millennium Edition ("Windows Me") Reviewed It is, quite possibly, the most under-hyped version of Windows ever created. But for home users confused by the incompatibilities, cost, and system requirements of Windows 2000, Microsoft's last hurrah in the Windows 9x product line offers a ray of hope. Windows Millennium Edition--or Windows Me (as in the dreadful, "get to know Me" tagline)--is a lame duck technologically, but it offers enough reliability improvements and new features for me to recommend it heartily to most Windows 9x users (Figure). And for those people that eagerly turned to Windows 2000, only to get burned, Windows Me might be just what the doctor ordered.
I've been covering Windows Me for over a year now and have written more about this operating system than anybody outside of Microsoft. So before you proceed with this review, you may want to take a look at some of my many other articles about Windows Me, which explain Microsoft's positioning of the product and the ways in which Windows Me lives up to the company's goals. In late 1999, I wrote up an introduction and review of Windows Millennium Edition Beta 2. And in April 2000, I wrote up an introduction and review of Windows Me Beta 3, which was very close to the final version in terms of feature-set. And I've written a number of Technology Showcases that apply to Windows Me, including an Activity Centers Preview, an overview of the Windows Me "Out of Box Experience", and a look at the contents of the final Windows Me CD-ROM.

OS/2 WARP

This is the OS/2 Warp 4 desktop. Like many desktops you can store files and folders right on the desktop.
The icons shown above are the standard icons placed on the OS/2 desktop.
The OS/2 System folder, when opened, contains options and tools used for configuring and managing OS/2. The Assistance Center folder contains help files and Internet links to information relating to the use of OS/2. Connections contains local drives, printers, the local network connections, and internet connections. The Programs Folder opens an icon view of programs that are installed on the system. WebExplorer is a basic web browser that ships with OS/2 Warp 4. The shredder is used for deleting files, however unlike a Trash or Recycle Bin icon, the shredder immediately deletes the file and does not store a copy for retrieval later.
Oddly the right mouse button is used for dragging icons by default, rather than the left mouse button. This behavior can be changed.

Unix

The following screenshot shows the Xserver running in full windowed mode on windows. From here you would SSH into the Universities Unix systems and then run any application that you normally would at University.

Windows 95

The Windows 95 Boot screen (actually from the OSR-2 version, the original does not have that stupid "Microsoft Internet Explorer" text.).
The Windows user interface has, once again, been completely revamped. This time it actually makes some sense. Not much, but some. There is also much more to Windows 95 than other versions, and is more than I could possibly show with a few screen shots, but here are some highlights:
In Windows 95, the window controls, located in the upper right of each window, have a new look. The system box now displays a small icon, and a "close" button has been added. Dialog box controls such as check boxes, option buttons, and text boxes all now have a 3D look to them.

Linux

This is the DVD Version of SuSE Linux 10.2 Live. The DVD is bootable on systems that support boot from DVD. With SuSE Linux 10.2 Live, there's no need to install a Linux system to have a full-featured desktop. Just place the live DVD into a DVD-ROM drive, boot from the disc, then watch an entire SuSE operating system run "on the fly" from the DVD-ROM.

Windows CE 3.0

Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 is an operating system (OS) designed for embedded systems including PDAs and mobile phones, working within the constraints of the slow processors and reduced amount of memory available on these devices. It can run on several different types of processor and has support for real time programming.
The successor to Windows CE 3.0 is Windows CE 4.0.

Windows 98

Windows 98 Second Edition (often shortened to SE) is an update to Windows 98, released on May 5, 1999. It includes fixes for many minor issues, improved USB support, and the replacement of Internet Explorer 4.0 with the significantly faster Internet Explorer 5. Also included is Internet Connection Sharing, which allow multiple computers on a LAN to share a single Internet connection through Network Address Translation. Other features in the update include Microsoft NetMeeting 3.0 and integrated support for DVD-ROM drives. However, it is not a free upgrade for Windows 98, but a stand-alone product. This can cause problems if programs specifically request Windows 98 SE, but the user only owns Windows 98. Also included on the CD-ROM is the option to install Microsoft Plus! themes for Windows 98. A list of all features new to Windows 98 Second Edition can be found here: KB234762

MS-DOS (short for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialised by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the dominant operating system for the PC compatible platform during the 1980s. It has gradually been replaced on consumer desktop computers by various generations of the Windows operating system.
MS-DOS was originally released in 1981 and had eight major versions released before Microsoft stopped development in 2000. It was the key product in Microsoft's growth from a programming languages company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. It also provided the platform on which early versions of Windows ran.

Windows CE

Windows CE (also known officially as Windows Embedded CE since version 6.0) [2] [3](and sometimes abbreviated WinCE) is a variation of Microsoft's Windows operating system for minimalistic computers and embedded systems. Windows CE is a distinctly different kernel, rather than a trimmed-down version of desktop Windows. It is not to be confused with Windows XP Embedded which is NT-based. It is supported on Intel x86 and compatibles, MIPS, ARM, and Hitachi SuperH processors.

Windows XP

Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. The letters "XP" stand for eXPerience.[2] It was codenamed "Whistler", after Whistler, British Columbia, as many Microsoft employees skied at the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort during its development. Windows XP is the successor to both Windows 2000 Professional and Windows Me, and is the first consumer-oriented operating system produced by Microsoft to be built on the Windows NT kernel and architecture. Windows XP was first released on October 25, 2001, and over 400 million copies were in use in January 2006, according to an estimate in that month by an IDC analyst.[3] It is succeeded by Windows Vista, which was released to volume license customers on November 8, 2006, and worldwide to the general public on January 30, 2007.
The most common editions of the operating system are Windows XP Home Edition, which is targeted at home users, and Windows XP Professional, which has additional features such as support for Windows Server domains and two physical processors, and is targeted at power users and business clients. Windows XP Media Center Edition has additional multimedia features enhancing the ability to record and watch TV shows, view DVD movies, and listen to music. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition is designed to run the ink-aware Tablet PC platform. Two separate 64-bit versions of Windows XP were also released, Windows XP 64-bit Edition for IA-64 (Itanium) processors and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition for x86-64.
Windows XP is known for its improved stability and efficiency over the 9x versions of Microsoft Windows. It presents a significantly redesigned graphical user interface, a change Microsoft promoted as more user-friendly than previous versions of Windows. New software management capabilities were introduced to avoid the "DLL hell" that plagued older consumer-oriented 9x versions of Windows. It is also the first version of Windows to use product activation to combat software piracy, a restriction that did not sit well with some users and privacy advocates. Windows XP has also been criticized by some users for security vulnerabilities, tight integration of applications such as Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player, and for aspects of its default user interface.
Windows XP had been in development since early 1999, when Microsoft started working on Windows Neptune, an operating system intended to be the "Home Edition" equivalent to Windows 2000 Professional. It was eventually merged into the Whistler project, which later became Windows XP.

Windows 2000

With the introduction of 32-bit Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows was able to stop relying on DOS for file management.[citation needed] Leveraging this, Windows 95 introduced Long File Names, reducing the 8.3 filename DOS environment to the role of a boot loader. MS-DOS was now bundled with Windows; this notably made it (partially) aware of long file names when its utilities were run from within Windows. The most important novelty was the possibility of running 32-bit multi-threaded preemptively multitasked graphical programs. However, the necessity of keeping compatibility with 16-bit programs meant the GUI components were still 16-bit only and not fully reentrant, which resulted in reduced performance and stability.
There were three releases of Windows 95 (the first in 1995, then subsequent bug-fix versions in 1996 and 1997, only released to OEMs, which added extra features such as FAT32 and primitive USB support). Microsoft's next OS was Windows 98; there were two versions of this (the first in 1998 and the second, named "Windows 98 Second Edition", in 1999). In 2000, Microsoft released Windows Me (Me standing for Millennium Edition), which used the same core as Windows 98 but adopted the visual appearance of Windows 2000, as well as a new feature called System Restore, allowing the user to set the computer's settings back to an earlier date. Microsoft left little time for Windows 2000 to become popular before announcing their next version of Windows which would be called Windows XP.

Microsoft windows

Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of software operating systems by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).[1] Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced previously. At the 2004 IDC Directions conference, IDC Vice President Avneesh Saxena stated that Windows had approximately 90% of the client operating system market.[2] The current client version of Windows is Windows Vista. The current server version of Windows is Windows Server 2003. The successor to Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 is currently being beta tested.

The latest processor

Dual Core AMD or Intel Processor An AMD or Intel dual core processor. That's right, two processors. Not one. We normally prefer AMD due to their great price/performance ratio, but we can offer either to you.

The latest memory

“OCZ is excited to release the world’s first 1800MHz DDR3 solution, which offers consumers not only the fastest production specification, but has additional headroom for enthusiasts to go on and break records,” commented Dr. Michael Schuette, VP of Technology Development at OCZ Technology. “Following on the heels of the 1600MHz release of OCZ DDR3 comes the 1800MHz DDR3 series with a peak bandwidth of 14400MB per second and latencies comparable to the fastest offerings of DDR or DDR2. No other architecture can offer the same balance of bandwidth and latencies, and no other architecture has annihilated all existing high scores within a mere few weeks after its introduction and the OCZ3P18001G series plays an integral part in this triumphant achievement.”
This DDR3 RAM is optimized to work with the latest Intel platforms

The latest slot

The 915P-A by ECS offers both x16 PCI Express and AGP-compatible slots.Whenever Intel's latest chipset generation is under discussion, two hot issues dominate. The
first is the Pentium 4 Prescott's tremendous heat dissipation. The second is the lack of
support for AGP in the Intel 900 chipset series, which forces upgrading users to buy a new
PCI Express graphics card. Since there is no performance reason yet to make the switch from
AGP to PCI Express, many users hesitate to upgrade.
While the nature of this platform change is rather significant, lots of existing systems
running CPUs in the range of 1 to 2 GHz can easily be upgraded by simply exchanging the
graphics card. In fact, many gamers decide to go this route, since the performance impact is
much more noticeable than what changing the motherboard and CPU can do.
ECS catered to this problem at a pretty early stage, showcasing a 915-based prototype
motherboard at Computex 2004 that featured an AGP slot in addition to the default x16 PCI
Express one. Unfortunately, since then, Intel decided to drop support for the legacy AGP
slot entirely.
One possible compatibility option would have been to place a bridge chip on the motherboard
to allow an AGP slot to work via PCI Express. As you can imagine, this piece of silicon
would have made any motherboard more expensive. And from a user's perspective, we would
rather spend extra money on a PCI Express graphics board than on a makeshift solution.
ECS decided to pick an interface option that actually is much closer to AGP: the good old
PCI bus. While PCI's bandwidth is somewhat pathetic by today's standards, ECS seems to have
evaluated its performance as satisfactory for an interim transitory solution. Let's take a
look at it and see how it fares.

The latest motherboard

ASUS Striker Extreme Motherboard Incorporates nForce 680i SLI Chipset
ASUS, the worldwide motherboard leader, today introduced the Striker Extreme, a motherboard specifically designed to simplify the DIY process and add style to gaming systems.
As the newest member of the popular Republic of Gamers (ROG) series, the nForce 680i SLI-based Striker Extreme supports an Intel Quad-Core processor and NVIDIA's Quad-SLI technology, and is ready for the new 1,333MHz FSB specification. Made for gamers and tweakers, the ASUS motherboard provides the power needed for smooth video and extreme performance